About Daisy Hill

Park features

Nestled between Brisbane and the Gold Coast, Daisy Hill Conservation Park is part of the Koala Bushland Coordinated Conservation Area (KBCCA)—a forested oasis surrounded by urban development. The area protects important koala habitat while also being one of South East Queensland’s most significant recreation hubs.

Escape the city to walk, mountain bike or horseride through a network of shared trails. You can explore vibrant bushland in every direction, from tall eucalypt forest to sun-dappled melaleuca wetlands. Enjoy a barbecue lunch in one of the shady picnic areas with accessible pathways and tables and open grassy spaces for children to play. If you’re lucky, you’ll spot one of the resident red-necked wallabies. For more wildlife spotting, head to the Daisy Hill Koala Centre for a free, up-close encounter with live koalas. Interactive displays and educational talks by Wildlife Officers are features of the centre.

Looking after the park

You can help protect the park and forest by observing these guidelines:

• Do not take or disturb plants or animals. Everything in the park is protected.
• Stay on the designated trails. Shortcutting causes erosion, damages vegetation and can potentially result in injury.
• Remove all rubbish. No bins are provided.
• Dogs are only permitted in the picnic areas and on the walking tracks and shared trails designated with the dog-walking symbol. They are not permitted on the mountain-bike and horse trails. Dogs must be on leashes at all times and dog faeces must be bagged immediately and removed from the park.
• Horse manure must be removed from the park.
• Horses are to be tethered only for short periods and only at hitching posts or resting areas.
• Let animals find their own food. Human food can make native animals susceptible to disease and can cause overpopulation and aggressive behaviour.
• Show consideration for other park users and keep noise to a minimum.

See caring for parks for more information about protecting our environment and heritage in parks.

Come clean, go clean

Help stop the spread of weeds and pathogens (disease producing organisms such as phytophthora, myrtle rust and amphibian chytrid fungus ) threatening our parks. Soil and detritus can contain weed seeds and pathogens, such as fungal spores, that are harmful to the forest health and impact wildlife, such as frogs.

Before you visit the park:

• Walkers and dog walkers—remove seeds and wash soil and mud from your clothes and shoes and from your dog’s coat and paws.
• Stollers and wheeled equipment—remove trapped soil in wheels before you visit.
• Mountain bikers—wash and clean your mountain bike and gear of seeds and soil and mud.
• Horseriders—remove seed from your horses’ coats, hooves, equipment, and floats.
  • Feed your horses weed-free, good quality, processed feed for at least 48 hours before entering the park.

While in the park:

• Keep to tracks and trails at all times.
• During your walk keep all gear as clean and free from soil as possible.
• Avoid walking or riding through patches of weeds, especially if they are seeding.
• Adhere to signs and messaging. Areas may be closed where there is risk of spreading disease.

Park management

Daisy Hill Conservation Park was gazetted as a conservation park in 2006. Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS) manages this area for the purposes of nature conservation and sustainable nature-based recreation.

Daisy Hill Conservation Park is part of Queensland’s first coordinated conservation area—the Koala Bushland Coordinated Conservation Area (KBCCA). Born from a common concern to protect the area’s natural values, the Queensland Government, Logan City Council and Redland City Council forged a long-term conservation agreement in 1996, creating the KBCCA. The conservation area links Daisy Hill Conservation Park, Venman Bushland National Park and local council areas (Neville Lawrie Reserve, Don and Christine Burnett Conservation Area and Ford Road Conservation Area) to provide a combined area of over 1500ha of natural bushland. This area protects one of the most intact natural koala habitats between Brisbane and the Gold Coast.

Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service, Logan City Council and Redland City Council are working together to protect and cooperatively manage the KBCCA to:

• protect endangered koalas and their habitat
• keep bushland catchments clean and protect plant and animal communities
• provide opportunities for environmentally compatible and sustainable, nature-based recreation and education.

Tourism information links

Brisbane Visitor Information and Booking Centre
www.visitbrisbane.com.au
The Regent, 167 Queen Street Mall (between Albert and Edward streets)
Brisbane QLD 4002
ph (07) 3006 6290
email: visit@brisbane-eda.com.au

Hyperdome Visitor Information Centre
Cnr Pacific Highway and Bryants Rd, Loganholme
ph (07) 3801 9199
email: customerservice@hyperdomeshopping.com.au

For tourism information for all regions in Queensland see Queensland Holidays.

Further information

Daisy Hill Koala Centre
253 Daisy Hill Road, Daisy Hill
PO Box 5116, Daisy Hill QLD 4127
ph (07) 3078 3101
International +61 7 3078 3101
email: koala.centre@detsi.qld.gov.au

Open 10am to 4pm daily (except Christmas Day, New Year's Day and Good Friday).