Melville Koppies is only 5 km from the city centre.

Nestled between two busy main arterials, adjacent to one of Joburg's trendiest suburbs, Melville Koppies offers 60 hectares of nature reserve and 100 hectares suitable for open site viewing and hiking.

Melville Koppies will satisfy the needs of nature and history lovers, as well as those interested in geology. For the nature lovers there are 200 bird species, small mammals, 50 varieties of grasses, a lot of shrubs and spring flowers, trees natural to the area and different snake species.

History lovers will appreciate a Stone Age Camp with hundreds of artifacts dating back 50 000 years, as well as an Iron Age Furnace that was uncovered in 1963. The iron-smelting debris found next to the furnace were carbon-dated to around 1600. These pieces of the history puzzle were the reason Melville Koppies was declared a National Monument.

If Geology is your interest, make sure to climb up the hill to have a look at one of the oldest rocks on earth, Greenstone, estimated to be 3 000 million years old.