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 remote shelter in the Bilipin area of Wollemi National Park, which has six hand stencils and two unusual, human-like figures.
- Wollemi National Park
- Number of motifs: 8
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 2024
A fairly weathered Aboriginal rock art site, which has four or five charcoal motifs on a recessed panel at the base of a very tall cliff near Mountain Lagoon.
- Wollemi National Park
- Number of motifs: 5
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 2023
Aboriginal rock art wite with a single charcoal figure near the end of the Western Ridge.
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 2024
An impressive frieze of Aboriginal charcoal drawings in the Blue Labyrinth area of the Blue Mountains; the identifiable motifs include a wallaby or kangaroo, and two men fighting.
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Number of motifs: 35
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1958
Faint Aboriginal charcoal art in a shallow overhang along the Western Ridge.
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Number of motifs: 3
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 2024
Two isolated but very distinct grinding grooves along the Western Ridge
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Number of motifs: 2
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2024
Five red ochre human figures on the the ceiling of an elevated shelter (as well as another two motifs) along the Western Ridge in the Blue Labyrinth.
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Number of motifs: 7
- Quality: 4/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1958
An isolated sandstone boulder with (at least) three Aboriginal hand stencils and charcoal art.
- Blue Mountains National Park
- Number of motifs: 4
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 1958
- Originally recorded by: Eugene Stockton
A waterhole with two axe grinding grooves, near the Womerah Range Trail.
- Parr State Conservation Area
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1966
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
An undisturbed shelter with three Aboriginal rock art figures in thick scrub above Fraser Creek.
- Number of motifs: 3
- Quality: 4/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1982
Two adjacent shelters with Aboriginal rock art in a gully of Big Yengo Creek; they have weathered hand stencils and drawings.
- Yengo National Park
- Number of motifs: 6
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 2018