Woodlands Historic Park

Woodlands Historic Park is a 1,340-hectare park in Greenvale, City of Hume, Victoria, backing onto Melbourne Airport. Managed by Parks Victoria, it preserves the 1840s Woodlands Homestead, surrounding pastoral landscape and remnant native grasslands. Notable for its large eastern grey kangaroo population, historic buildings, and Living Legends thoroughbred retirement facility, it offers a combination of natural and heritage visitor experiences.

Visitors can expect an open rural landscape of native grasslands, woodlands and wetlands with mobs of eastern grey kangaroos, historic bluestone buildings including Woodlands Homestead (1842-1843), and the Living Legends estate. The park has marked walking and cycling tracks, horse riding trails, picnic areas and bird hides. The setting is tranquil and semi-rural, adjacent to Melbourne Airport, with views of the homestead gardens, paddocks with retired champion racehorses, and natural bushland.

Woodlands Homestead was built between 1842 and 1843 for Captain William Pomeroy Greene, a Royal Navy officer, and is one of Victoria's earliest surviving pastoral homesteads. The property illustrates early Port Phillip pastoral settlement, with original bluestone homestead, outbuildings and garden layout. The park was later part of the larger Woodlands pastoral run and was reserved as a historic park to conserve its cultural landscape and native grasslands.

The park lies on the traditional Country of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. It preserves a cultural landscape that reflects both Aboriginal land management and early European pastoral heritage. The homestead and Living Legends precinct demonstrate colonial architecture, pastoral life and Australia's thoroughbred racing heritage.