Aranda Bushland Heritage Walk
About
Aranda Bushland Nature Reserve is a 104-hectare protected area in northern Canberra.The reserve features a remnant stand of Snow Gums (Eucalyptus pauciflora) surrounding a frost hollow. Frost hollows occur when cold winter air drains to the lowest ground and settles in a pool. It's too cold for most trees and shrubs to establish naturally, so grasses dominate. This hardy stand of Snow Gum stand is the best-preserved example in and around Canberra’s suburbs.
Aranda Bushland is part of an extensive area of wooded vegetation that includes Black Mountain, O'Connor Ridge, Bruce Ridge, Mount Painter and The Pinnacle nature reserves. Together these reserves create a corridor enabling wildlife movement to and from the Molonglo and Murrumbidgee rivers.
Aranda Bushland Nature Reserve protects:
• important woodland bird habitat, including the threatened Speckled Warbler (Chthonicola sagittata), Varied Sittella (Daphoenositta chrysoptera) and White-Winged Triller (Lalage sueurii)
• a high diversity of plants considered rare in the ACT, with significant populations of several species, including the Small Purple Pea (Swainsona recta), which is listed on the ACT Heritage Register
• small areas of critically endangered Yellow Box–Blakely’s Red Gum Grassy Woodland and Natural Temperate Grassland in the southern end of the reserve
• the Snow Gum Grassy Woodland in the southern end of the reserve, known as the Aranda Snow Gums area and listed on the ACT Heritage Register
Our guides will be the Friends of Aranda Bushland, established in 1990, an active group of citizen scientists undertaking revegetation and monitoring and maintaining tracks in the reserve.
Meeting: At the southern end of Caswell Drive near William Hovell Drive (a map with the exact location of the meeting point will be provided in your reminder email)
Date
Sunday 29 March 2026 9:30 AM - 11:30 PM (UTC+11)Location
GDE Memorial Carpark
Caswell Drive, ACT
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Aranda Bushland Heritage Walk
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