NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) is part of Department of Planning, Industry and Environment. NPWS manages more than 870 NSW national parks and reserves, covering over 7 million hectares of land.
A small but deep cave in Mt Ku-ring-gai has four clearly-stencilled hand prints in ochre.
A guide to discovering the trig stations hidden in national parks across Sydney.
The trig stations in and around Garigal National Park in Sydney’s north are generally easy to access – unlike many of the nearby Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park trig stations that demand serious navigation and off-track skills.Â
A newly-discovered site in Mt Ku-ring-gai, the Crawford Road Shelter has multiple charcoal motifs.
The Myall Trail is a short firetrail that leads to the end of a ridge in the Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, with views over the park.
Along the Myall Trail are a number of Aboriginal heritage sites, including engravings and cave art, that reflect a fruitful hunting ground.
A long rock shelter near Franks Gully in the Berowra Valley National Park contains a number of cave paintings, and a shield engraved above the cave
Next to the Pacific Motorway (M1), the Spring Gully (or Cockle Creek) site has 83 engraved figures across multiple locations.
Multiple rock engraving sites are located along and around the Milyerra Road Fire Trail in Kariong (in the Brisbane Water National Park)
A significant site near Bulgandry in Kariong: “The whole group is particularly well drawn, and presents one of the best samples of this native art that the Writer has met with”