K&R adventures Traditional Cache

Telopea Park is one of the oldest parks in Canberra, Australia. The name of the park is from Walter Burley Griffin's original plan for Canberra where he planned Telopea Park at the end of Sydney Avenue. The park is named after the floral emblem of New South Wales.

Indigenous people used this land for thousands of years before it was utilised by prominent early settler Robert Campbell in the 19th century. It was then part of his Duntroon cattle grazing property with a primitive house built on the land for local family the Rottenburys in 1880. There are no remnants of this dwelling remaining, after it was made a parkland and the trees were planted in 1922.