The City of Joondalup encourages the community to participate in recreational activities while also appreciating our beautiful, unique and natural environment. Find out how you can enjoy the City's parks, bushlands and reserves.
We are lucky to be the home of many parks and bushland areas where we can enjoy our parks and reserves while also being able to protect our natural areas for future generations to enjoy.
The City provides access to these areas by maintaining pathways in parks and bushland reserves to ensure our natural areas are protected but can still be enjoyed. These paths are lined with Zamia, Marri, Tuarts and many more wonderful native species that provide habitat for our extensive wildlife, and also allow us all to experience and connect to nature.
View our parks and bushland reserves
The City manages more than 300 parks and reserves, for residents, visitors, sporting clubs and community organisations to use and enjoy. Sports parks are used for a wide range of sporting codes and activities.
How to book parks and reserves
Parks can be booked for sporting fixtures, community events and casual use. Conditions apply and applications need to be made for hire.
Caring for parks, bushlands and reserves
Friends Groups are volunteer groups who work with the City to restore our natural areas. These groups boost local biodiversity by removing weeds, replanting native vegetation, and hosting community events.
The City is committed to supporting Friends Groups to achieve agreed goals for the improvement of natural areas. Visit the Friends Groups page for further information.
The City looks after our natural areas through various activities, including:
- controlling weeds
- fencing bushland to protect plants from trampling
- replanting native vegetation
- installing paths and signs
- controlling feral animals
- fire management.
To care for parks and bushland areas you can help by:
- Join a Friends Group that cares for local bushland reserves. These volunteer groups rehabilitate bushland areas by removing weeds, replanting native vegetation, and hosting education events. Visit the City's Community Directory to find a Friends Group.
- Keep dogs on leads when visiting bushland areas and pick up dog waste.
- Leave birds and other wildlife to find their own food from nature. Feeding wildlife can make them sick.
- Keep your cats inside at night and within your property boundaries during the day.
- Stay on pathways to avoid trampling native vegetation.
- Pick up litter and consider organising or participating in a Clean Up Australia Day event for your local bushland.
- Using available boot cleaning stations before entering and leaving the bushland to reduce the risk of spreading plant diseases.
- Not clear or prune vegetation and/or removing individual plants from bushland areas.
- Not picking wildflowers.
- Plant a locally native garden at your home, to provide more habitat for native animals.
- Learn about weed management.
- Report suspicious behaviour to the WA Police on 131 444 or if you see a fire phone 000.
Bushlands are under increasing pressure from the following threats:
- Introduced plant pathogens and plant diseases
- Weeds
- Fire
- Dogs off lead
- Introduced animals, such as foxes, rabbits, feral fish (koi and carp), cats, birds, and invertebrates such as the Polyphagous shot-hole borer
- Human impacts, such as vegetation removal, trampling vegetation, arson, littering, vandalism, and destroying vegetation to build cubby houses and bike tracks
- Lighting infrastructure can also impact wildlife such as moths and other nocturnal species
- The effects of climate change.
There are many significant plant species and vegetation communities within our bushland reserves, including:
- Banksia woodlands threatened ecological community
- Tuart woodlands threatened ecological community
- Mature eucalyptus trees
- A variety of native shrubs, wildflowers, grasses and groundcovers species.
These plants provide habitat for a range of endangered, threatened or priority native animal species, including Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo, Quenda and invertebrates, like the Graceful Sun Moth.
To view the City’s parks and bushland management plans visit the publications page.
Memorials in parks and open spaces
Memorials provide a place and opportunity for family and friends to remember, grieve, honour and celebrate a person who has passed.
While memorials are commonly located in designated memorial parks and cemeteries, memorials in public open spaces may be considered by the City.
How to apply
Application forms are required to be completed in order to manage the installation of memorials within public reserves in a way that maintains local amenity, ensures the safety of members of the community and minimises maintenance requirements.
There are two types of memorials in public open space which may be applied for:
- Temporary memorial: Considered for situations where a person has died in tragic circumstances. An approved temporary memorial may remain in place for up to 12 months.
- Permanent memorial: Considered in recognition of a person who has died and whose past actions have made a significant contribution to the City of Joondalup community.
Application forms are available below. Return the completed form via info@joondalup.wa.gov.au
For further information into the process, requirements and types of memorials and locations which may be considered, view the Memorials in Public Open Spaces Policy below.