Brisbane Forest Park is now part of the D'Aguilar National Park, located on the mountain range of the same name at the western tip of Brisbane. The large nature reserve is spread out in the Enoggera Basin near the near the Mount Kutta Nature Reserve.
The forest park is home to the headwaters of several of the region's waterways, including the South Pine River, Enoggera Creek, Gold Creek, Moggill Creek and its tributary Gap Creek, Cabbage Creek, and Cedar Creek. It's also home to Manchester Lake and the Gold Creek and Enoggera dams.
The first national park on the D'Aguilar Range - "Maiala" - was founded in 1930 by a community group called the "Brisbane Trustees of the National and Recreational Park". In 1973, the group began exploring the possibilities of creating a park between Mount Kut-ta and Mount Nibo. Initially the Brisbane City Council considered it impossible to open a public recreational area in the an area that provided a water supply for the entire city. To resolve the controversy a co-ordinating committee was set up and in 1977 a Parliamentary Order declared the 25,000 hectare as a conservation area. In 2009, Brisbane Forest Park was renamed and became one of two sections of the D'Aguilar National Park.
At the Wildlife Centre (located at the entrance to the forest park on the road to Mount Nibo) you can learn about Australia's wildlife, visit a see-through bird aviary aquarium and animal enclosures, including nocturnal representatives of the Australian fauna. Here you can see native birds, platypus, sugar flying possum, wallaby, wombat, giant marsupial, mottled marten, large marsupial rat, snakes, lizards, turtles and fish.
For a walk in the forest park, you can choose one of many trails designed to protect the natural environment and at the same time allow visitors to get to know it better. The road to the waterfalls Greens Falls leads through the rain forest to the top of the falls.
