Wollongong Botanic Garden also manages the following sites as Annexes to the Botanic Garden:
Puckey’s Estate Nature Reserve
Puckey’s Estate Nature Reserve is an important remnant of Wollongong’s heritage with a strong connection to the Aboriginal Wadi Wadi people that once used the land. Situated less than 1km from the Wollongong Central Business District, Puckey’s Estate was previously used as a salt mill by the late Courtney Puckey. The historic remains of the salt works and the Puckey’s homestead can still be found at the southern end of the reserve.
The reserve is recognised as an Annex site to the Botanic Garden due to its extremely rare coastal dune system, containing several endangered ecological plant communities. Puckey’s can be entered via a pedestrian boardwalk located adjacent to the Fairy Creek Bridge on Squires Way North Wollongong, with a 1.5km natural walking track extending through to Elliots Rd Fairy Meadow.
Mount Keira Summit Park
Mount Keira Summit Park is located at the top of the Illawarra escarpment and is home to the Mount Keira Lookout, and Mountain Top Restaurant.
Visitors to the park can enjoy the world class views with the Northern Lookout showcasing the Illawarra coastline all the way to the Royal National Park, and the Southern Lookout showing off the City Centre, Port Kembla Industrial area and Lake Illawarra. Both lookouts can be accessed via a 15 minute bushwalk along the Mount Keira Ring Track.
The Mount Keira Summit Park is recognised as a natural Annex to the Botanic Garden as it contains many significant Illawarra Escarpment plant species.
Facilities on site include the Mountain Top Restaurant and Café, free picnic and BBQ facilities.
The Mount Keira Summit Park is open 7 days per week during daylight hours and can be accessed via Mount Keira Rd, thenonto Queen Elizabeth Drive.
Korrongulla Wetland
Korrongulla Wetland is located in Primbee and contains of a series of interconnecting lagoons and wetlands that eventually drain into Lake Illawarra.
Despite varying uses of this land since European settlement including farming and tipping industrial waste, the site contains significant remnant vegetation.
The site is recognised as a Botanic Garden annex due to it containing 4 different endangered ecological plant communities, and is also home to range of fauna including the Black Bittern, Pink Robin and Green and Golden Bell frog – all listed as threatened under the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act (1995)
Korrongulla Wetland can be accessed via Nicolle Rd Primbee.