The Hunter Region covers a large area to the north of Sydney: the hills and rivers in the Hunter Valley were created by Baiame, an ancestral deity. The traditional custodians of this area were the Wonnarua, Darkinjung, Wiradjuri and Awabakal people. A large number of rock art sites can be found this area, including the Baiame Cave and Finchley Aboriginal Area. While national parks protect many of the Aboriginal rock art sites, there are still many which are located on private land.
An enormous sandstone shelter in the Bala Range, which has over forty figures in charcoal and red ochre. They include two anthropomorphs which are over two metres tall, and a number of animals.
- Number of motifs: 7
- Quality: 5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2017
- Originally recorded by: Jeff Betteridge
An Aboriginal engraving of a large eel (or rainbow serpent) and several bird tracks on a ridge off the Bala Range Trail.
- Number of motifs: 8
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 1976
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
A small and shallow shelter with Aboriginal rock art below a ridge off the Bala Range Trail.
- Number of motifs: 6
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2016
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
A rock platform near the Boree Track which has an engraving of a woman (in profile) and numerous axe grinding grooves.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1977
A spectacular Aboriginal rock art site in Yengo National in the lower Hunter Valley, Yengo 1 has over 500 motifs including stencils, paintings and engravings as well as engravings and axe grinding grooves.
- Number of motifs: 507
- Quality: 5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Unknown recording date
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff, Jo McDonald
Yengo 2 is a spectacular Aboriginal rock art site in Yengo National in the lower Hunter Valley. The shelter has 94 figures, including 40 stencils and many depictive motifs.
- Number of motifs: 93
- Quality: 5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Unknown recording date
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff, Jo McDonald
A long but very low shelter in the Big Yango Precinct, which contains 22 tally marks engraved in the sandstone.
- Number of motifs: 22
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1986
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
The Big Yengo Tobacco Shelter is a large, deep overhang in Yengo National Park with Aboriginal rock art (charcoal drawing and hand stencils).
- Number of motifs: 4
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2018
A small shelter along Big Yengo Creek, which has Aboriginal rock art including a star or starburst, and 16 stencils in white ochre.
- Number of motifs: 17
- Quality: 4/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2018
An Aboriginal engraving site near the Boree Track with a large Baiame figure, man and speared echidna.
- Number of motifs: 5
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1966
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- View site sketch
A low shelter along the Boree Track with Aboriginal drawings of men and women in charcoal.
- Number of motifs: 4
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2025
A large rock platform above the Boree Track which has several engravings, including a large emu, two spirit figures and a line of mundoes.
- Number of motifs: 10
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1966
- Originally recorded by: Ian Sim
- View site sketch
A long, tunnel-like shelter, Carrolls Cave has over 80 Aboriginal hand stencils, as well as stencils of stone axes and spears. Above the shelter are a mundoe and kangaroo engraving.
- Number of motifs: 102
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1993
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff, Bob Pankhurst
A number of weathered engravings on a rock platform near the Boree Track, which includes a Daramulan figure.
- Number of motifs: 3
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 1994
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
An Aboriginal rock art shelter with multiple panels containing figures drawn in charcoal art, which are the remnants of a large frieze.
- Number of motifs: 19
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good, Weathered
- Year first recorded: 1988
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
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