The Berowra Valley National Park is a national park about 20km to the north of Sydney, within the Sydney Basin. A 25km stretch of the Great North Walk is located within the national park, and there are a number of hiking trails.
The Hunter Region has thousands of Aboriginal rock art sites, consisting of both shelters (stencils land drawings) and engravings.
Aboriginal rock art site with very weathered charcoal figures below Crosslands Road.
The Callicoma Walk is a loop bushwalk in suburban Cherrybrook, which follows Berowra Creek and Nyrippin Creek through temperate rainforest. A short road section completes the circuit.
A tall overhang above Pyes Creek, which contains eight Aboriginal charcoal drawings. Some of the figures appear clothed, suggesting this may be a post-contact site.
Seven faded Aboriginal hand stencils in red ochre, in a shallow rock shelter above the Callicoma Trail in Cherrybrook.
A single Aboriginal hand stencil in red ochre near the Callicoma Trail in Cherrybrook.
An oval-shaped Aboriginal rock engraving near the Callicoma Trail in Cherrybrook.
An Aboriginal engraving of an emu and a smaller (indeterminate) figure at Refuge Rock in Cherrybrook.
Hornsby Shire – which is the largest LGA in the Greater Sydney Metropolitan region – contains approximately 600 recorded Aboriginal rock art sites (and over 1,200 Aboriginal heritage sites). These date back from thousands of years to post-European contact art.
An Aboriginal engraving of an eel and several grinding grooves on a rock platform next to the Hawkesbury Track in Berowra.