The Greater Blue Mountains incorporates a number of national parks and is full of cultural significance, with six Aboriginal groups having connections to the area. There are over 3,000 recorded Aboriginal heritage sites in the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area, but the rugged and remote topography means that for every known site there are likely to be at least two more yet to be “discovered” or recorded. The parks in this area include include:
- Blue Mountains National Park, which protects many important cultural sites of the Dharug and Wiradjuri people, has a number of easily accessibly and signposted Aboriginal rock art sites.
- Wollemi National Park is the traditional home of the Wiradjuri, Dharug, Wanaruah and Darkinjung people. Evidence of their occupation includes ceremonial grounds, stone arrangements, grinding grooves, scarred trees and rock engravings.
- Yengo National Park which is home to the Darkinjung and Wonnarua People, has 640 Aboriginal cultural sites recorded in the park and nearby areas.
- Gardens of Stone, the traditional lands of the Wiradjuri people, has many shelters with rock art and hand stencils in its countless valleys and overhangs.
A small shelter with Aboriginal rock art on the wall and ceiling, including birds, men and a woman.
- Wollemi National Park
- Number of motifs: 11
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2019
Aboriginal rock art in a shelter above Angorawa Creek, with three charcoal motifs and two remants of hand stencils.
- Wollemi National Park
- Number of motifs: 5
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 2019
A bird/emu track and wallaby/kangaroo track along Lawson Ridge in the Blue Mountains
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Number of motifs: 2
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 1958
- Originally recorded by: Eugene Stockton
Six red hand stencils in a fairly small and shallow rock overhang on the Asgard Plateau.
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Number of motifs: 6
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 1996
A small shelter with Aboriginal rock art, just outside the Wollemi National Park. The deep overhang has a number of hand stencils, as well as one of a hand and a club.
- Wollemi National Park
- Number of motifs: 26
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1985
A very small and low shelter with a single Aboriginal red ochre hand stencil.
- Gardens of Stone SCA
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Unknown recording date
A shelter with Aboriginal rock art, consisting of faint figures and lines in both white and red ochre.
- Gardens of Stone SCA
- Number of motifs: 4
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Unknown recording date
A signposted site on Kings Tableland, Battleship Tops is known for its unusual rock formations - but is also an Aboriginal rock art site. Although badly damaged, traces of red ochre figures can be seen.
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Number of motifs: 5
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Condition of art: Fire damage, Graffiti damage, Vandalised
- Year first recorded: 1970
A spectacular Aboriginal rock art site in Yengo National in the lower Hunter Valley, Yengo 1 has over 500 motifs including stencils, paintings and engravings as well as engravings and axe grinding grooves.
- Yengo National Park
- Number of motifs: 507
- Quality: 5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Unknown recording date
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff, Jo McDonald
Yengo 2 is a spectacular Aboriginal rock art site in Yengo National in the lower Hunter Valley. The shelter has 94 figures, including 40 stencils and many depictive motifs.
- Yengo National Park
- Number of motifs: 93
- Quality: 5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Unknown recording date
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff, Jo McDonald
The Big Yengo Tobacco Shelter is a large, deep overhang in Yengo National Park with Aboriginal rock art (charcoal drawing and hand stencils).
- Yengo National Park
- Number of motifs: 4
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2018
A small shelter along Big Yengo Creek, which has Aboriginal rock art including a star or starburst, and 16 stencils in white ochre.
- Yengo National Park
- Number of motifs: 17
- Quality: 4/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2018
An overhang above Tootie Creek with very weathered Aboriginal hand stencils; nearby is a small set of grinding grooves.
- Number of motifs: 6
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 2024
A well-preserved and significant Aboriginal rock art site, the Blackfellows Hands Cave (Maiyingu Marragu) has over 50 stencils of hands and weapons. It's reached by a short walk.
- Black Fellows Hands Reserve, Gardens of Stone SCA
- Number of motifs: 50
- Quality: 4/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1907
A remote Aboriginal site at the edge of the Wollemi, this long shelter has over 80 motifs which include four stencils of kangaroo tails.
- Number of motifs: 82
- Quality: 4/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1984
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff, Jo McDonald