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.
Shelter above a tributary of Linden Creek, which has a small number of Aboriginal rock art motifs in charcoal
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Number of motifs: 4
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1993
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
Shelter above a tributary of Linden Creek, which has an extensive but weathered Aboriginal rock art panel with figures in charcoal and red ochre
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Number of motifs: 10
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 1993
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
An isolated shelter along Linden Ridge, which has 12 Aboriginal hand stencils (most in red ochre)
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Number of motifs: 12
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1993
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
A small Aboriginal rock engraving site along Linden Ridge, which has six figures including fish, an echidna and a motif with two concentric circles.
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Number of motifs: 6
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1958
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
Two small, adjoining rock platforms along the Linden Ridge Firetrail have shallow axe grinding grooves.
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1993
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
An expansive rock platform along the Linden Ridge in the Blue Mountains, which has axe grinding grooves and stone arrangements.
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1993
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
A very small rock platform above the Linden Ridge Firetrail in the Blue Mountains, which has three distinct axe grinding grooves.
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1993
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
An Aboriginal Shelter with Art in a gully near Linden ridge, this small cave has over 30 hand stencils in red ochre.
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Number of motifs: 30
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1959
A low cliff-line with red ochre figures (including two emu tracks) and two sets of hand stencils
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Number of motifs: 7
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1984
A remote rocjk shelter along the Linden Ridge in the Blue Mountains, which has a panel of Aboriginal charcoal rock art.
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Number of motifs: 6
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1998
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
An impressively high, long and deep shelter below Linden Ridge in the Blue Mountains, Stratton Cave contains Aboriginal rock art which was "discovered" by A.J. Stratton in 1934.
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Number of motifs: 12
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1958
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
A large, weathered charcoal Aboriginal art figure in a low shelter in the Mellong Range.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 2023
- Originally recorded by: Mark Roebuck
A complex Aboriginal art shelter in the Mellong Range, which has multiple stencils including hands and a boomerang and human figures in charcoal and white ochre.
- Yengo National Park
- Number of motifs: 40
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2023
- Originally recorded by: Mark Roebuck
Five or six Aboriginal axe grinding grooves around a shallow waterhole along the Mount Banks Summit Walking Track.
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Number of motifs: 6
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1988
Over fifty Aboriginal grinding grooves along Explorers Ridge near Mount Banks, which was described as a major workshop site.
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Number of motifs: 55
- Quality: 4/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1980