Beautifully landscaped park with free entrance and plenty of road parking. It has a very relaxing atmosphere. So many lovely animals such as wallabies, bilbies, hoping mice, dingos, goats, peacock, birds, geese etc. Lovely place for a joyful weekend.

It’s fantatis! Great nature centre - Perfect for families. A zoo free for everyone! We can see kangaroo, wombat, many kind of birds….and more nices annimal of Australia. Beautiful setting and easy parking and access. We find going in the afternoon gives best chance to seeing the nocturnal animals rousing from their sleep!

Worth the travel. Was able to see wombat up close, awake and walking around. Lots of other animals, the ones we usually see in a zoo and there's even farm animals even a cow. My little one enjoyed it.

I really love this place. I wish they would make it even bigger. It is wheelchair friendly and easy to get around. A great day out for the family. Well worth the trip to Ipswich. Well looked after animals and gardens. Don't miss this little gem.

Awesome experience at Ipswich Nature Centre. Free entry with fantastic staff on site. We enjoyed the nature talk about dingoes and the feeding of Dexter the ox 🐂 The wooden boardwalk was very clean and pram friendly. Plenty of street parking and playground just across the road. We also stopped by at the cafe 👍🏻

Beautiful park with an amphitheater and a variety of local wildlife and plants. A great way to spend an afternoon with children or family. It has a nice aviary also and a relaxing walking path. Almost like walking through a fairy tale! Just gorgeous! You can pick up local plants for your garden too! Admission is free currently just need to show proof of vaccinations!

Beautifully landscaped area with a wide variety of animals, including birds, mammals, and reptiles. There is a separate bird aviary, which is a lovely experience. Overall, it has a very relaxing atmosphere. Lovely place to visit with kids. You can also take a walk in Queens parks as well as Nerima gardens. Entrance is free. Free parking available.

Month of visit: December 2023 It's a nice place to visit, especially if you bring your kids. They don't have an entrance fee, but you can donate in their gold coin donation box. This place feels like a mini zoo for me, there are some reptiles, kangaroos, wallabies, and birds. They have a well care tracking path so it will be easy for those bringing strollers or wheel chairs :) The surrounding is also nice, there is a park with outdoor playground as well. Must visit especially for families with kids!

Nice place, well care. For small walk for family with kid it very very nice. After finished from the park just right in front it is a big play ground for stop and picnic the kid will enjoy lots.

This free zoo is truly delightful! Whether it's the adorable animal displays or the relaxed environment, it made for a pleasant time with my family. Thanks to the park for providing such an opportunity for everyone to appreciate the wonders of nature. Highly recommended for those who enjoy getting up close and personal with animals! (Your donation will help provide better living conditions, medical care, and research, allowing these beautiful creatures to thrive and grow. Joining hands with your generous heart, Let's work together to make the world a better place!)

Please make sure to donate as you leave😁 I have always loved coming here to see the animals. Since I was little every visit has been fun and exciting even if the range of animals has largely stayed the same. The improvements they made a few years back definitely enhanced the experience. Miss the farm animals which they seem to have limited. Make sure to look out for the crocodile living in the pond 😂😉

shut way to early but other than that its great

Opened back after COVID closure, still a very little restrictions apply.

I was so excited to stumble across this place! It’s such a lovely, volunteer cared for little spot! Full of happy, cared for animals and well maintained gardens. My son particularly enjoyed the birds. The best part about this little treasure is that it’s FREE! You can give gold coin donation on your way in our out. We will definitely return to this spot in the future.

Great wildlife sanctuary. Gold coin donation, lots to see. Would definitely recommend.

You ALWAYS have my attention at "FREE family outing". 🥰🤩😂 but you only get my reviews if 1, we really enjoyed our time and 2, we liked it enough to take snaps. 😊 Ipswich Nature Centre is definitely a space we look forward to sharing with family & friends that are on holiday from NZ. Another beautiful and well taken care of natural space. The array of amazing wild life is amazing and 9ur children always enjoy our time here. A+++++

You can have a close watch at some unique and amazing Australian animals like wallaby, wombat, native birds etc

Awesome experience right in the heart of Ipswich. Wide variety of animals, friendly staff and covid safe.

Considering this is free it's amazing! You've got enough stuff here to keep kids entertained for an hour or two and can save yourself the fees on something like lone Pine for example. Great place

Such a great resource. Always worth a visit.

It's a lovely compact mini zoo for everyone..Still a few flying foxes in the trees. Free to enter,but a gold coin donation is accepted. Wheelchair and pram friendly walkways. Plenty of trees for shade,and water bubblers for a drink. Great for kids young and old as you can get up close to the animals. Barnyard is a little disappointing,there was only 1 steer,2 goats and a chicken. One of the few places to can see a Bilby.

This was the most amazing place. For a gold coin donation you walk a lovely board walk and take in nature and wonderful animals. Great for the whe family wish there was more of these around

Didn't see it all and a few of the encloses are currently closed due to renovations. But a good way to spend the days with kids. Free entry but there ask for donation in a unman locked box. I gave only a little as my funds are very low currently sadly Lol.

A beautiful park with lots of parking, play areas and open grass areas for a picnic/day out. Very well preserved and cared for - our toddlers had a blast. Best of all, it is free :D

If you're struggling to find something to do without spending money then look no further. This place has a number of different animals to look at in a really good layout which will take you probably 30-45 minutes to walk around depending if you have little ones in toe or not. Wild bats occupy the trees in and around. I'd highly recommend Ipswich Nature Centre.

The animals here are treated extremely well. The enclosures are always clean and tidy. A great area for school excursions, tourists and a perfect outing for families. Right next to Queens Park!!

What an amazing visit and it's a free visit too. My son loves dropping in to visit the animals. Pram and wheelchair friendly.

What an amazing place! Blew our expectations out of the water! Well done with all the wildlife, and the “flow” of the experience. I loved so many of the animals we saw today including the flying foxes, bilbies, wallabies, and spotted quoll. We even went through twice! You cannot bring food in, so plan to picnic outside before/after OR go to the cafe just a 2 minute walk up the road. There are no toilets inside the park, but there are public restrooms just outside the main entrance. Worth way more than a gold coin donation!

This is a cool place for the kids and adults too! And just a quick drive from Brissy. Its a great place to watch Oz animals and its free! Beware of the spawn of bats hanging above though. Aside from the animals, there is a playgroud and bbq spots. Stopby at the cafe for a bite.

Really enjoyed visiting , only Aussie animals as far as we could see but as it's free entry that's not an issue. Well maintained exhibits and informative displays.

My wife, kids and I had the pleasure of this amazing free activity. It was a pleasant walk through activity which gave us opportunities to snap a few photographs and see some great native Australian animals. This is a well maintained facility and close to parking, toilets and a Cafe. Right next to Nerima Japanese gardens too. So it was a nice afternoon spent.

Love this walk at Queens Park. Good for strollers, little feet’s and big feet’s. Wombat, lizards, wallaby’s, kangaroos, dingos, emus, a cow and goats among the fruits bats there is much to explore.

Lovely well kept and designed garden. It is quite large and set on a hill so it could take a while to walk it all. It's wheelchair or walker friendly for most of it so no need to worry about steps. It is set next to a school so it gets noisy on weekdays around lunch breaks. The entrance is hidden away at the top of Queens Park and it was a nice surprise find.

Great fun to go visit with the kids! Love how the park is laid out! The animals have beautifully keep enclosures, and I love how the creek runs thru different encloses. To be honest looks better kept than the zoo's you pay to go in! Great for the kids

Family friendly, well maintained mini zoo with many local animals. Free entrance , though gold coin donation is welcomed at exit.

This place was amazing and best of all free. Great selection of animals to view in a beautiful setting. Everyone who visits Ipswich needs to come here. Great for young and old.

Lots of Australian animals to wander through and look at. Our toddler loved getting to see all of the animals.

It was a lot better than what I was expecting. The centre is beautifully landscaped with a boardwalk throughout. They have a wombat, wallabies, kangaroos, pademelons and bilbys. There's a walk in aviary. To top it all off, entry is free (gold coin donations can be given on exit).

A free gorgeously designed mini zoo with oir native animals on display.

A wonderful spot for all. Please donate on visit, it would be sad to lose this experience.

What a wonderful little park. Great fun for big kids and little ones. Free entry although you can donate.

Great place . It hosted the annual Christmas lights show and it was amazing , the kids were blown away.

A great place to visit. Children of all ages will love this place. A real gem of a find.

Nice little discovery. Hadn't planned on going. Our teenage children enjoyed the long walk around the park observing all the animals.

A wonderful place to visit with children.

Friendly staff and easy to see the animals. Great free day out

Lovely place to visit with the kids

Beautiful place for family picnics. Apart from beautiful garden, there is a little zoo, cafe and a lots of play areas.

Christmas lights was worth the 30 Min car ride. Kids loved it 👍

Must do in Ipswich. Always a great walk

Great place to go and have a look at animals nearby and cheaply with kids

Great day with the grandchildren. Very clean and appealing. A hidden gem in Ipswich.

One of the best kids enjoyed.

Fabulous place animals are looked after grounds are always well maintained

It's small but family friendly and free. The staff are welcoming. A recommended visit if you are in the area.

B.E.A.U.T!!

It's a awesome morning out

great for family outings.

Lovely place to visit anf see a small range of native animals

This mini zoo is definitely a place worth visiting, especially if you’re in the area! Such a big variety of animals for us to see - for the price of $0 / optional donations.

Excellent family friendly attraction. FREE but pls do donate gold coin...

Beautiful place!

Well maintained nice display of the local animals and birds of Ipswich. Good morning stroll for families with kids.

Great place for all the family, easy access, safe walkways. Fun and excitement for all the family.

For free it's worth the visit 👌

Much better than expected

Awesome

Love this place

It was a great experience and all for a gold coin donation... Very easy walk lots of animals and interesting details on signs Very good

(Translated by Google) Lots of small animals and admission is free, it’s worth a visit! (Original) 很多小动物 而且免费入场 值得一去！

Arrived late with a booking from booking.com and the lady told me that she couldn't let me in. She said take it up with booking.com. no compromise. She just was completely ruthless. I had no where to go. She could have let me in. I had to sleep in my car even though I had a booked room and paid for it.

Very Beautiful and peaceful

Grandies loved it. Gold coin donation if you want. Helps with maintenance to keep it free

Fantastic animals and well laid out. Great family day

Awesome place to relax and enjoy

Just awesome. Great for the kids.

Free to walk through and look at the animals. Absolutely beautiful Ipswich council (or whoever owns it) should be very proud of themselves. Such a delight for kids and adults

Pleasantly surprised by this place and was much more than what I was expecting. It is in fact a mini zoo and free to the public. A very enjoyable and informative stroll through the displays, can highly recommend this as a half day outing if you want to go see some animals. A hidden gem.

Its a great place for the kids to go see some animals and there's also a kids park and coffee come dining shop accross the road. There's also a Japanese garden that you can wander through... wonderful place for pics...

Very beautiful and educational place to visit. Had a wonderful time with my step daughter and grandson. Awesome!

Had a great time with friends, and family. The children had fun looking for the wombat and the many birds, and kangaroos. Was a lovely walk around the Centre.

What a wonderful place for the people of Ipswich. I will be bringing the family back. Affordable, wide variety of animals, birds, and plants. All beautifully maintained. Fantastic.

Awesome spot to take the kids. Worth way more then a $1 coin donation.

Fabulous FREE day out (gold coin donation)!! What a hidden gem, the animals were great, the grounds were stunning and so well kept and it was a really fun family activity. The bird enclosure was a highlight. Highly recommend. Kuddos to the security personnel out the front checking vaccination status.

I never knew this was here and I've been in the area for years. It was great fun. It's like a mini zoo, great for the kids. Highlight of my visit was the wild bats nesting in the trees above. Never seen so many different kinds of bats in one place, spectacular!

This place is great! Really well cared for grounds and exhibits. The path travelling through out is mostly board walk and is easy for strollers or wheel chairs and is almost all shaded by lovely old trees. Best of all, entry is either free or a gold coin donation.

Great way to burn off your breakfast at the Queen's Park cafe, lots of birds and other native wildlife to enjoy 📷

OMG, this place is just so good. I am so surprised that this is free entry. It has so much inside it and is easy to walk around. I wish it was a bit more closer to where i lived as i would go every couple of mnths just to observe all the birds and reptiles there. The range of birds is good and some are so pretty. Really really nice.

It’s great time to visit this park specially my kids love the birds and others animals.it’s so quite and you can listen naturally sound is soo calm .I love to visit again.

Had a nice little adventure, staff were super friendly and happy to talk about the animals. I wanted to take one of the free roaming baby lizards home because they were so cute!

Such a lovely little place. And so we'll set out. Wheelchair accessible although a bit bumpy in places. Very relaxing place to visit.

I've brought the kids here many times, my son loves it. Today was great, we were there by 9:30am, very few people around and most of the animals were out and about (instead of hiding). Saw some great wombat antics, a busy Bilby and we patted and brushed Dexter the cow.

What a awesome place to visit for a free day with family. It wasn't very busy, with a option of a coin donation perfect for little and big kids. Beautiful Australian animals. Flying foxes, a wombat called Dusty, big bird enclosure, the biggest Eagle I've seen, bilby, wallabies, roos, monitor.....awesome. lot's of seats, easy path to walk with a stoller, disabled parking, shade.

What a gem this nature centre is in Ipswich. They ask for a gold coin donation to attend. Excellent place for families & adults. So many lovely Australian animals to see up close. We were very impressed with how many animals were there. Clean & tidy environment. Will return 🙂

Went with my scout group for an outing today. It looks a lot smaller than what it actually is, is very enjoyable, and will definitely be going again. Gold coin donation for entry and massive park across the street.

A little gem of a place, our kids love it. No crocs or Koalas here, but there are wombats, bilbies, dingoes, snakes, quoll, various wallabies and kangaroos, emus and a fantastic avary stocked with many species of birds including doves, parrots, cockatoo, and wedge tailed eagle to name but a few. Definitely worth visiting.

Ipswich Nature Centre, which is a free-entry place where you can see many native Australian animals. Although the park is not that big, but I’m impressed by the variety of species that can be seen at the centre, including birds, kangaroo, wallaby ,wombat, bilbies etc. This makes it a great destination for families with children who want to learn more about Australian wildlife

This was a beautiful place, you do need to take your time and look carefully for the wild life as they do hide very well. Stunning bird variety. You can't take food in but there is a place outside to sit if you take a picnic, with benches. Only two toilets outside so ensure to use before you go in. For a free day out I think its worth it. We did put gold coin in the box at entrance. There is no playground just a open park.

A well kept nature centre with beautiful landscape and a good number of Australian wildlife. It's pram friendly and there's heaps of parking available. Definitely worth a visit!

The Ipswich Nature Centre was a joy to visit - with or without kids. Note that there is a bat colony present, so take a hat & follow the signs. Do take gold coins with you by way of donation, as the park is free to visit. There is plenty to see, the gardens and animals are well kept & cared for. You can also enjoy a walk around the beautiful Japanese Gardens and have a coffee at the Cafe which are all short walking distances from each other.

Look up, look down, look all around. Lovely to see water dragons in abundance and comfortable in a (relatively) natural surroundings. The walk is on a platform, so easy for all to explore the park. Kids loved the variety of animals.