Weston Park

Planned Park Closures: Thermal Assisted Aerial Control (TAAC) Program

The ACT Parks and Conservation Service will carry out its annual Thermal Assisted Aerial Control (TAAC) program from Thursday 8 May to Friday 30 May 2025. This operation targets vertebrate pest species in key conservation areas, water catchments, and some semi-urban locations across the ACT. Park and reserve closures will be in place during this period for public safety.

View the closure dates and maps

In a life threatening emergency dial Triple Zero (000)

Emergency Contact

In a life threatening emergency dial Triple Zero (000)

triple zero 000

ACT Public Hospitals

Canberra Hospital

5124 0000

North Canberra Hospital

6201 6111

Mental Health

Call Mental Health Triage on

1800 629 354

(free call except from mobiles or public phones) or

6205 1065

Poisons Hotline

For a poison emergency in Australia call

13 11 26

Drug and Alcohol Help Line

The Drug and Alcohol Help Line is available 24-hours, 7 days a week on

5124 9977

Health Protection Service

For after hours urgent public health matters including environmental health, radiation safety, food poisoning and communicable disease management phone:

(02) 6205 1700

healthdirect

24 hour health advice

1800 022 222

ACT State Emergency Service

Emergency help
during flood or storms

13 25 00

Lifebuoy

Weston Park is a popular 40 hectare area in the heart of Canberra.

It features a wading pool (in summer only), beach, miniature train and cycle track. Other facilities include a playground with climbing net and swings, adventure playground, disc golf, miniature train, and a fixed orienteering course.

A multi-purpose gravel platform and public boulodrome measures 54 metres by 18 metres with 13 petanque pistes and 10 bocce courts. It is the home ground for the Capital Petanque Club and the Bocce Club of ACT/Queanbeyan.

Dogs are welcome on-leash as outlined on the dog exercise area map and are prohibited within 10 metres of a public play space, fireplace or barbecue in use.

What you'll see

Child on swing

What you'll see

At Weston Park, you can see:

the SIEV X National Memorial
views of the Molonglo River and Lake Burley Griffin
miniature railway and putt-putt nearby
café nearby

Things to do

Activities

Features

BBQs - electric
Café (food)
Dogs on-leash
Drinking water
Miniature railway
Picnic tables
Playground
Shelter
Toilets
Walking track/s

Ngunnawal Country and People

Weston Park is located on Ngunnawal Country, an ancient and diverse landscape managed by Ngunnawal people for tens of thousands of years.

For time immemorial Ngunnawal people have maintained a tangible and intangible cultural, social, environmental, spiritual, and economic connection to these lands and waters.

European heritage

The park's origins go back to May 1913 when Charles Weston located the site for his proposed production nursery and experimental facility (Yarralumla Nursery) and the adjacent arboretum (Westbourne Woods). He intended that they serve as the centre for landscape and park operations in the national capital. While experimental work was transferred elsewhere in the 1970s, the nursery's plant production role has continued to the present day.

When Lake Burley Griffin was filled in the mid-1960s, the park's landscape was maturing and was able to be further developed to meet demand for lakeside recreation.

The park was officially named after Charles Weston in 1963.

A master plan continues to support improvements and facilities.

Before you go/How to get there