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 shallow shelter at the base of a cliff along Coba Ridge, which contains very weathered fragments of Aboriginal drawings.
Ten Aboriginal hand stencils (most of them very weathered) in a low overhang along Coba Ridge.
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.
While there is no view from the King George Trig on Mount Banks, you get some great vistas over the Grose Valley from the walking track up to the top of the mountain.
Combining the Mount Banks walking track with the Mount Banks One Trail (a bushwalking and cycling route), this loop traverses the Mount Banks summit and goes out to the Banks Wall for some spectacular Blue Mountains views.
Over fifty Aboriginal grinding grooves along Explorers Ridge near Mount Banks, which was described as a major workshop site.
Five or six Aboriginal axe grinding grooves around a shallow waterhole along the Mount Banks Summit Walking Track.
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.