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 series of four shelters along the same cliff-line with over 300 Aboriginal rock art motifs. The figures include bullroarers, hand stencils and the tail feathers of a bird.
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Number of motifs: 300
- Quality: 5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Unknown recording date
A small Aboriginal shelter with art in the Kings Tableland; some of the charcoal motifs have been damaged by fire and exfoliation.
- Number of motifs: 10
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Condition of art: Fire damage
- Unknown recording date
A shelter above Drip Rock Creek, which features a line of 11 koalas and a sinuous snake in charcoal.
- Wollemi National Park
- Number of motifs: 15
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Condition of art: Good, Weathered
- Year first recorded: 2009
Five hand stencils in a small shelter near a ridge above Woodford Dam, one of which shows a full forearm.
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Number of motifs: 5
- Quality: 4/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1958
Three Aboriginal axe grinding grooves sites along Lapstone Creek, including a large plaform in the creek bed with ten grooves.
- Number of motifs: 13
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1991
An Aboriginal rock engraving of a single kangaroo in Lawson in the Blue Mountains, on Kangaroo St.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1967
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
A small rock outcrop in Lawson, with unusual Aboriginal rock art motifs
- Number of motifs: 5
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1988
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
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