Tree Walks in Brisbane

Brisbane has 2 walks that string its ancient trees together on foot, from 0.37 km to 2.31 km, past 17 trees in all. Each one is an afternoon rather than a hike, and every tree on it has a story worth the stop.

The order is ours, worked out from where the trees actually stand; the walking distance is the real one along streets and paths where we have been able to route it, and a straight line between trunks where we have not. Nothing here is a signposted trail.

City Botanic Gardens

14 trees · about 2.31 km · 29 min on foot

Begins at The Eagle Street Fig Trees (White Fig and Banyan Fig (Ficus virens and Ficus benghalensis)) and ends at The Macadamia Nut Tree.

Newstead Park

3 trees · about 0.37 km · 5 min on foot

Begins at The Talking Tree of Newstead House (Cunningham's Fig / White Fig (Ficus virens)) and ends at The White Rabbit Tree of Newstead Park.

All of these stand in Brisbane, where we map 19 remarkable trees in total. Or walk somewhere else: Alicante · Alkmaar · Amersfoort · Amsterdam · Arnhem · Assen

Over 1,900 old trees worth the walk