Adelaide Park Lands, Public parkland in Adelaide, Australia

Adelaide Park Lands is a connected green belt spanning roughly 930 hectares that surrounds the city center and creates clear separation between Adelaide and its suburbs. The land features walking trails, cycling paths, sports facilities, and picnic areas accessible from many different entry points.

Colonel William Light reserved the figure-eight of open space in his 1837 plan for Adelaide, with 700 acres south of the River Torrens and 342 acres north. By 1839 timber cutting, quarrying and dumping threatened it, so George Gawler and Superintendent Henry Inman appointed Nick Boys Bull as Keeper of the Park Lands with a small team of rangers. The City Council took over management in 1852, and the Park Lands were added to the Australian National Heritage List on 7 November 2008.

The Kaurna name for the River Torrens, Yatala, survives in the Park Lands, and the local name pinky or pingku for the greater bilby gave Pinky Flat its name; the bilby was still numerous there in 1890 but presumed extinct in the wild in South Australia by 1930. Since 1852 a ranger has regulated sports, recreation and grazing, and today the parks hold gardens and playing fields.

The green belt is a figure-eight of open space on both banks of the River Torrens, between Hackney and Thebarton, so the river splits it into a southern ring around the city centre and a northern ring around North Adelaide. Crossings over the Torrens link the two halves. About a quarter of the land holds government, public and cultural buildings, and 230 hectares are set aside as native wildlife refuges.

The Greater Bilby, called pinky or pingku locally, was still reported numerous in the Park Lands in 1890; the species was presumed extinct in the wild in South Australia by 1930. Its former prevalence is the likely origin of the name Pinky Flat, a spot within the Park Lands.