Padthaway Conservation Park

Padthaway Conservation Park (formerly the Padthaway National Park) is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state's south-east in the gazetted locality of Padthaway about 253 kilometres (157 mi) south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) north-east of the locality's town centre.

The land originally gained protected area status in 1971, when section 136 was gazetted as the Padthaway National Park.

[5][2] As of March 2018, it covered an area of 9.81 square kilometres (3.79 sq mi).

[4] In 1992, vegetation within the conservation park was described as consisting of two vegetation associations, i.e. a woodland of South Australian blue gum and rough barked manna gum and a low open forest dominated by brown stringybark, and two sub-associations, i.e. an open/low open woodland of South Australian blue gum and pink gum and open woodland of slaty sheoak.

[5]: 27 The conservation park is classified as an IUCN Category III protected area.