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.
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
A long sandstone shelter in the MacDonald River area of Yengo National Park, which has some weathered charcoal art.
- Yengo National Park
- Number of motifs: 2
- Quality: 1/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 1991
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
A remote Aboriginal rock art site near the Grose River, which features a long panel with over 20 stylized human-like figures drawn in charcoal.
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Number of motifs: 30
- Quality: 5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2025
Two separate Aboriginal grinding groove sites next to waterholes along the cliff-top; one has three grooves and the other about ten
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1977
Three Aboriginal sites near Bilpin: a shelter with hand stencils, an occupation shelter and a single spear-grinding groove.
- Wollemi National Park
- Number of motifs: 5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2022
A small Aboriginal rock engraving site below Hat Hill in Blackheath, which has emu (or bird) prints and grinding grooves.
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Number of motifs: 13
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1985
A Blue Mountains Aboriginal rock art site at the base of a tall cliff near the Bells Line of Road, which includes a depiction of an ibis in charcoal.
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Number of motifs: 29
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 2020
- Originally recorded by: William Moon
An Aboriginal engraving of a kangaroo track; nearby are two sets of grinding grooves on the large rock platform.
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2023
The Kings Tableland Aboriginal Place is a significant Aboriginal site in the Blue Mountains, which has a large number of grinding grooves and a shelter with carvings on the wall of animal tracks.
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Number of motifs: 8
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1973
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim