In Western Australia, regional parks consist of areas of land that have been identified as having outstanding conservation, landscape and recreation values.

The park contains remnants of the once widespread Swan Coastal Plain and two threatened ecological communities, Thrombolites and Sedgelands.

The purpose of these regional parks is to serve as urban havens to preserve and restore cultural heritage and valuable ecosystems as well as to encourage sustainable nature-based recreation activities.

The Environmental Protection Authority, EPA, identified areas of significant conservation, landscape and recreation value, in a report in 1983.

[2] The park is non-continuous, with Cape Peron and Lake Richmond forming an isolated north-western block and Anstey and Paganoni Swamp a separate southern part.