The Mackay Regional Botanic Gardens

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Discover one of Australia's newest Botanic Gardens, located at beautiful Mackay on the Central Queensland Coast.

These new gardens opened to the public in May 2003 and are being constructed over a 15 year, 10 phase period focusing on flora from the Central Queensland Coast bioregion that surrounds the city, along with other beautiful Australian Natives and exotics from similar climates around the world.

The Mackay Regional Botanic Gardens provides many resources to visitors and the community - from a pleasant recreational facility with overthree kilometres of walking and cycling trails, to a unique cafe and gallery perched high above our wildlife filled lagoons, to a place that remembers the past and Mackay's cultural identity today with 5 feature ''cultural themed' gardens and of course - a garden filled with life and colour - home to animals and plants - some threatened in the wild.

The Mackay Regional Botanic Gardens was made possible by a seeding grant from the Queensland State Government and is funded and operated by the Mackay Regional Council.

Opening hours

• Recommended visiting is from 5am to 11pm. All major arterial pathways and facilities are accessible and lit within these hours.
• Administration is open Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm.
• The Lagoons Cafe and Gallery is open Wednesday to Friday 10am to 3pm, weekends from 9am to 4pm. Closed public holidays.
• The Tropical Shade Garden and The Fernery is open weekdays and weekends when our volunteer Gardens Friends and Staff are at the Administration office.
• Closed public holidays.

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