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.
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 small shelter with Aboriginal rock art below Lions Head; the red ochre motifs may include an emu and sailing ship.
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Number of motifs: 6
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2024
An Aboriginal rock art site in Mellong, with what is thought to be a contact motif depicting a horse.
- Wollemi National Park
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 4/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2002
- Originally recorded by: William Moon
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
A small set of Aboriginal grinding grooves on a large rock platform above Mount Hay Road.
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2019
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: 1976
An unusual Aboriginal rock art site on the side of a tall cliff face, which has two faces and what appears to be a snake.
- Wollemi National Park
- Number of motifs: 3
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2022
An interesting panel containing Aboriginal cave paintings in a shelter near Bilpin. Most of the figures are painted in charcoal.
- Wollemi National Park
- Number of motifs: 10
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2022
- Originally recorded by: Mark Roebuck
Weathered Aboriginal charcoal figures at the base of a tall cliff-line above the Nepean River
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Number of motifs: 7
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 1958
A small shelter above New Yard Creek which has a number of different Aboriginal rock motifs, including a human figure, bird track and a snake as well as hand stencils.
- Wollemi National Park
- Number of motifs: 14
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2019
An intiguing Aboriginal rock art site; this shelter along New Yard Creek has multiple parallel lines and a cluster of dots, as well as many hand stencils.
- Wollemi National Park
- Number of motifs: 30
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2019
An interesting and complex Aboriginal rock art site in Colo Heights, which has a prominent "starburst" motif as well as many hand stencils.
- Wollemi National Park
- Number of motifs: 18
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2019