The Greater Blue Mountains incorporates a number of national parks and is full of cultural significance, with six Aboriginal groups having connection 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”. The parks in this area include include:
- Blue Mountains National Park, which protects many important cultural sites of the Dharug and Wiradjuri people, and has a number of easily accessibly and signposted Aboriginal rock art sites.
- Gardens of Stone, the traditional lands of the Wiradjuri people, and its many valleys and overhang have many shelters with rock art and hand stencils
- Wollemi National Park, 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, with 640 Aboriginal cultural sites are recorded in the park and nearby areas.
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 recently "discovered" shelter with Aboriginal rock art, just outside the Wollemi National Park. The shelter has over a hundred hand stencils.
- Wollemi National Park
- Number of motifs: 111
- Quality: 5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2019
Single hand stencil in a deep sandstone shelter below the D'Arcy Range Trail in the Wollemi National Park
- Wollemi National Park
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 2022
- Originally recorded by: Mark Roebuck
Charcoal and red ochre paintings are inside this shelter in the D'Arcy Range. Above the shelter are axe grinding grooves.
- Wollemi National Park
- Number of motifs: 2
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2022
Multiple charcoal drawiings at the base of a tall sandstone overhang in the D'Arcy Range.
- Wollemi National Park
- Number of motifs: 5
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2018
A wide and deep shelter in the D'Arcy Range has multiple charcoal drawiings at the base.
- Wollemi National Park
- Number of motifs: 6
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2018
Two axe grinding grooves along an unnamed creek in the D'Arcy Range
- Wollemi National Park
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2022
Accessible by four-wheel drive (or by walking), this deeply spiritual site is located along the Boree track and includes the spirit footprints of Biame.
- Yengo National Park
- Number of motifs: 113
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1937
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- View site sketch
Emu Cave (also known as Shearwoods Cave) has hundred of emu prints carved into the western wall, and axe grinding grooves above the shelter.
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Number of motifs: 100
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1871
The signposted Finchley cultural walk provides access to the Finchley Aboriginal Site, considered one of the best Aboriginal engraving sites in Australia.
- Yengo National Park
- Number of motifs: 137
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Year first recorded: 1966
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- View site sketch
Aboriginal red ochre hand stencil in a large camping cave near Goochs Crater (Blue Mountains)
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Unknown recording date
A long but shallow overhang with multiple Aboriginal hand stencils, near the Lilavale Track.
- Wollemi National Park
- Number of motifs: 10
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2022
Two adjacent indigenous heritage sites along Mount Irvine Road near Bilpin. One has axe grinding grooves, and the other hand stencils.
- Wollemi National Park
- Number of motifs: 10
- Quality: 4/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2022