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.
A long sandstone shelter in the MacDonald River area of Yengo National Park, which has some weathered charcoal art.
- Number of motifs: 2
- Quality: 1/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 1991
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
Two adjacent Aboriginal rock art shelters near Yengo NP; the smaller shelter has over 40 motifs including three sunbursts and three sets of tally marks.
- Number of motifs: 47
- Quality: 5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1975
A shelter with Aboriginal rock art in a gully near Jacks Track, which has over 50 motifs. They include drawings in charcoal, white and red ochre, and hand stencils.
- Number of motifs: 50
- Quality: 5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2018
- Originally recorded by: Bob Pankhurst
An impressive Aboriginal rock art gallery in a tall but shallow shelter near Jacks Trail. Most of the art consists of charcoal figures, with some red ochure figures and faint hand stencils.
- Number of motifs: 45
- Quality: 5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2018
A small but deep waterhole with axe grinding grooves next to Jacks Track in St Albans
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2022
A long and deep shelter above Little Boree Creek, which contains over twenty figures including a large kangaroo and arm stencil.
- Number of motifs: 20
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2017
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
An interesting Aboriginal rock art site in the Hunter Valley near Murrays Run, which has a very well-preserved panel of charcoal figures. They include kangaroos and a series of copulating couples.
- Number of motifs: 12
- Quality: 5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1967
- Originally recorded by: Margrit Koettig, W.J. Needham
- View site sketch
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.
- Number of motifs: 40
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2023
- Originally recorded by: Mark Roebuck
A panting in red ochre described as a "horned anthropomoph" near Mogo Creek.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1985
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
A deep and protected Aboriginal rock art shelter containing 40 motifs. The figures include two red ochre anthropomorphs connected by a line.
- Number of motifs: 40
- Quality: 5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2017
- Originally recorded by: Bob Pankhurst, Jeff Betteridge
Over 44 motifs were originally recorded in this enormous overhang near Mogo Creek; only a handful can still be seen due to weathering and graffiti.
- Number of motifs: 44
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Graffiti damage, Weathered
- Year first recorded: 1986
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald, W.J Enright
Well-preserved red ochre paintings in two rock shelters on the south-eastern slopes of Mount Manning, in Yengo National Park. The 45 motifs include horned anthropomorphs, echidnas and dingoes.
- Number of motifs: 45
- Quality: 5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1965
- Originally recorded by: N. W. G. Macintosh
- View Site Sketch
A large dome-shaped rock near the base of Mount Yengo with emu tracks and some weathered Aboriginal engravings, and grinding grooves.
- Number of motifs: 5
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1994
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff, Bob Pankhurst
Very weathered Aboriginal hand stencil on the base of Mount Yengo.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 2018
A long shelter with Aboriginal rock art, including hand and arm stencils, and tally marks.
- Number of motifs: 10
- Quality: 4/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2018
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