With its close proximity to the city and extensive network of hiking trails, this park is a popular site for bushwalkers from suburban Adelaide.

[4] Black Hill Summit is the highest point in the park (467m), bound by steep ridges on both the northern and southern slopes.

[6] Black Hill Conservation Park covers around 7.58 square kilometres (2.93 sq mi)[3] within the Mount Lofty Ranges, which run north–south to the east of Adelaide's coastal plain.

It is directly to the north of Morialta Conservation Park, forming a contiguous region with shared floristic, geological and climactic features.

Initially developed in the 1940s as a nursery for native flora, the site was purchased by the City of Campbelltown in 1963 and subsequently sold to the State Government in 1974.

[13] The high quality heathland contained within the park provides habitat for a wide variety of species, including the endangered Mount Lofty Ranges Chestnut-rumped heathwren.