Wentworth Common — Attraction in Sydney

Wentworth Common is a designer ecosystem built on manufactured soils in the 1990s following site remediation, and hand-planted with native grasses, groundcovers, shrubs, trees and wetland plants.

Wentworth Common now provides important habitat for the Green and Golden Bell Frog, as well as a rich diversity of insectivorous bats, birds, reptiles, frogs and invertebrates. The habitats of Wentworth Common are well on the way to becoming resilient urban ecosystems that will endure into the next century and beyond.

The newly constructed Wentworth Common and Bay Marker in 2000

Olympic Co-ordination Authority

A living grassland

The Bay Marker is enveloped by a sea of Blady Grass (Imperata cylindrica). This tall perennial grass grows in dense clumps, flowering with silky white seed heads between January and May. Blady Grass is a great soil stabiliser and provides habitat for wildlife.

Listen to the calls of male Golden-headed Cisticola in spring, Breeding males may be seen singing from tall strands of grass or performing display flights high above the grassland before diving back down into the long grass.

The circular pathway you took to reach the top is a perfect spot for sunbathing lizards during spring and summer, so please watch your step. The rocky retaining wall contains nooks and crannies for these shy lizards to retreat to if they...

I organised for my Daughters first birthday to be there but I had a horrible and stressful experience with the site hire coordinators. I felt like I was applying for a loan. The amount of information they wanted from the people that I had attend such as the jumping castle and face painter was so interrogating and they made me feel stressed throughout the whole process. They were not sympathic at all. I mean I'm going to a park and it should be at free will what I do there and who comes a long. I understood that they needed details about the jumping castle but the face painter canceled on me the last week before the birthday because they want public liability. Would never recommend to hire from this place. Shelly the site hire coordinator...

Enjoy a picnic on the grass or under a shady shelter. Fire up a free BBQ and have a sausage sizzle! Explore the kid's activities at the adventure playground, complete with an enormous sandpit, slide, climbing frame, swings, and shade sails! Ride the flying fox with a soft sand landing. Check out the large stone sculptures of the lizard and frog. Explore the shared pathways. Ride or walk the spiraling pathway to the top of the Bay Marker lookout for views of the wetlands, Haslams Creek, Homebush Bay, and the city skyline. Take your...