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.
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
A deep shelter below Darling Causeway has multiple charcoal figures including a deity and a man, and red ochre hand stencils.
- Number of motifs: 6
- Quality: 4/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2019
- Originally recorded by: Mark Roebuck
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
Dingo's Lair is a significant Aboriginal rock art site in the Wollemi, which depicts a number of dingos and quolls, as well as other native fauna.
- Wollemi National Park
- Number of motifs: 43
- Quality: 5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1979
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
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
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
A set of Aboriginal grinding grooves in a creek above Glenbrook Creek. Nearby is a charcoal figure drawn on shallow shelter in a low cliff-line.
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1975
Four scarred or burial trees near the Euroka Campground in Glenbrook.
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2005
Aboriginal rock art site with two charcoal motifs in a low overhang along a gully above the Euroka Campground.
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Number of motifs: 2
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2024
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
- Condition of art: Good, Vandalised, Re-grooved
- Year first recorded: 1937
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- View site sketch
A number of charcoal figures, many of them wallabies or kangaroos, along the back of wall of a long shelter above Fitzerald Creek.
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Number of motifs: 15
- Condition of art: Good, Weathered
- Year first recorded: 2023
Four Aboriginal grinding groove sites along a series of long rock ledges near Flat Rock on the Hay Ridge
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Number of motifs: 11
- Quality: 4/5
- Year first recorded: 1988
At least four weathered Aboriginal hand stencils in red ochre along a dry creek in the lower Blue Mountains
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Number of motifs: 4
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 2023
An Aboriginal rock shelter in Wollemi National Park, which contains over 100 motifs, including a number of deity figures.
- Wollemi National Park
- Number of motifs: 40
- Quality: 5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2022
A small shelter which has very unusual Aboriginal drawings, as well as stencils. There are grinding grooves nearby.
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Number of motifs: 8
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 1979
- Originally recorded by: Eugene Stockton
- 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