Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park

Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park is a non-profit outdoor garden and wildlife facility located in the North Side District of Grand Cayman Island in the British West Indies.

The forest surrounded by the Woodland Trail and south of the lake area is protected in order to assist in conserving flora and fauna native to the Cayman Islands.

The trail was built to allow those visiting a unique and safe view of the natural landscape that takes up much of Grand Cayman Island.

The four-fifths of a mile long trail encompasses approximately 40 acres and showcases several habitats that feature the rare and native Cockspur trees (Erythrina velutina) and Bull Thatch palms (Thrinax radiata).

Among these plants are: root crops and vegetables grown and harvested throughout Cayman history; the Silver Thatch Palm (Coccothrinax proctorii), an economically viable tree that provided the means for Caymanians to make thatch rope to use, sell, and trade; a medicinal garden that shows the types of plants Caymanians would utilize to homeopathically treat illness and injury; a sand garden surrounding a more-than-century-old Caymanian house, formerly owned by Julius Rankine, an East End settler; a fruit tree orchard containing banana, breadfruit, and mango trees.

[8] The Floral Colour Garden includes a gravel pathway leading through large stands of wooded areas containing native trees along with open grassy spaces, gazebos, and arbors.

The garden was designed to emphasize a specific colour layout beginning with pink and then moving into red, orange, yellow, white, blue, purple, and lavender.

[13] This aquatic habitat at the Botanic Park has become increasingly important as the wetlands on Grand Cayman Island continue to be lost to development.

With the birds that gather here as well the aquatic plant life, lake is a popular spot for photographers visiting the park.

Blue Iguana on Wilderness Trail, Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park
Restored early 20th-century Caymanian home and surrounding sand garden at QEII Botanic Park, Grand Cayman
Wild Banana Orchid, QEII Botanic Park, Grand Cayman
Butterfly at QEII Botanical Park, Grand Cayman
Lake and lily pads adjacent to Floral Colour Garden