Olive Pink Botanic Garden

Olive Pink Botanic Garden is a 16-hectare arid-zone botanic garden on Tuncks Road in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, overlooking the Todd River and MacDonnell Ranges. Founded in 1956 by botanist and anthropologist Olive Muriel Pink, it conserves more than 600 central Australian plant species. Notable for its desert flora collections, walking trails, hilltop views, and Bean Tree Cafe, it serves as a conservation, education and recreation site near the town centre.

Visitors can explore a landscaped arid-zone garden dedicated to central Australian flora with more than 600 species, including acacias, eremophilas and eucalypts. Sealed and unsealed walking trails wind through themed plantings, rocky hills and along the Todd River floodplain with views to the MacDonnell Ranges. Facilities include a Visitor Centre, Bean Tree Cafe, picnic areas and lookout points. Interpretive signage explains plant uses, ecology and the history of founder Olive Pink. Birdwatching and photography are popular throughout the garden.