BUSINESS PROFILE
Above: The areas along the river will be maintained as a public walkway with recreational picnic and play areas dotted throughout.
Whatever happened to Greenhills? Story by Katrina McLachlan. Photography by Brenton Edwards.
Ask any South Australian over the age of twenty and they’ll have a funny story or fond memory about Greenhills Adventure Park. Although it operated right up until early 2016, Greenhills is really always remembered as a snapshot of Australian summers in the eighties and nineties, when board shorts, neon t-shirts and boob tubes were the outfits of choice. The good times on the paddle boats and go carts, scaling walls or putt-putting around the par-three golf course were all about having a laugh in the fresh air. It all added up to a day of wonderful family fun. 62
Only a few years on and Greenhills has been transformed into a hidden haven of new homes. Local neighbourhood koalas, kookaburras and warbling magpies are now the closest neighbours of families ready for a new adventure. Greenhills Adventure Park was established by Margaret and Bill McKenzie and Rosemary and Tom Builder in 1982 and officially opened in March 1983 by the then South Australian Minister for Tourism, Gavin Keneally. For more than three decades, energetic tourists and locals enjoyed countless hours playing and relaxing with family and friends across the ten-hectare grounds that offered more than twenty attractions. Greenhills Adventure Park hosted circuses, jet ski demonstrations, and even South Australia’s first ever bungee jump which was strung up from a crane over the lake – and Craig Littlely has been there to enjoy it all. As the Grounds and Duty Manager of the Adventure Park the fun didn’t stop for Craig when the park closed, he stayed on as the Grounds Maintenance Manager of the Greenhills development.
