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.
One of the most spectacular Aboriginal rock art sites in Sydney’s north, with red ochre and charcoal drawings across two adjacent shelters.
Wide and deep shelter above Berowra Creek, which has an Aboriginal hand stencil and charcoal drawings.
Grooved water channel and axe grinding grooves on a rock platform near the Pogson Trig Firetrail.
Along Berowra Creek are a number of tranquil waterholes called The Fishponds. Between these pools are some nice cascades.
Waitara Creek cascades through a series of deep pools eroded by the rushing water, in what has been termed The Washtub.
The Pogson Trig is a solid but rather uninspiring concrete plinth, near the junction of the Pogson Trig Trail and the Quarry Firetrail.
Aboriginal rock art including charcoal drawings and red ochre hand stencils in a long shelter below the old Pacific Highway
Ochre drawings of fish in a shelter below Washtub Gully, near Berowra Waters
Sams Creek Loop combines Sams Creek Trail and the Berkeley Fire Trail in Berowra, to create a pleasant bushwalk that avoids the crowds.
A very weathered Aboriginal engraving of an eel (and axe grinding grooves) above a waterfall near the Berkeley Trail