Rymill Park

There is an artificial lake with rowboats for hire, a café, children's playground and rose garden, and the Adelaide Bowling Club is on the Dequetteville Terrace side.

[1] In the late 19th century, Poltpalingada Booboorowie, a personality well-known among the European settlers as Tommy Walker, a Ngarrindjeri man, and other Aboriginal people sometimes referred to as the "fringe-dwellers"[2] camped in the area.

[3] Keith Conlon described the area as "bare, swampy in winter, and populated by cows" from the time that Adelaide was founded and the parklands established by Colonel Light, and 120 years later.

Following a tour overseas, Town Clerk William Veale suggested an artificial lake, playground and picnic area.

[9] After being drained in November 2007 to make repairs addressing the leaking of 200,000 litres (53,000 US gal) per week, the lake was refilled in September 2008.

Critics of the plan included Mark Parnell MLC, Nick Xenophon and former Australian Democrats leader, Ian Gilfillan.

This makes it more cost-effective for the Adelaide City Council, which was previously spending A$160,000 a year topping up the water and replacing it after outbreaks of algae.

[22][17] Other features of the park include rose gardens, playgrounds,[24] avenues of well-established trees, barbecue facilities, and the 1962 statue Alice by John Dowie, inspired by Lewis Carroll's stories for children.

[18][25] Dowie's "Piccanniny" drinking fountain, in the form of an Aboriginal child and made out of coloured concrete with a bronze water container, is near the playground.

[30] Marsupials such as the brushtail possum rest in tree hollows by day and emerge at night to forage and feed.