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Best national parks in New South Wales

New South Wales has more than two hundred national parks, and several lie inside Greater Sydney. Sydney Harbour National Park is scattered over headlands and islands, with the North Head and South Head walks; Royal, founded in 1879 and the second oldest national park in the world, has the coast track and the Figure Eight Pools; Ku-ring-gai Chase, to the north, has Aboriginal rock engravings above Pittwater. The Blue Mountains, two hours west by train, draw the biggest numbers: the Three Sisters at Echo Point, the Scenic Railway at Katoomba, Wentworth Falls and the Grand Canyon walk.

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Blue Mountains National Park

New South Wales, Australia

The Blue Mountains begin about sixty kilometres west of the centre of Sydney, and their national park, a vast…

92 tickets & tours

Sydney Harbour National Park

New South Wales, Australia

Sydney Harbour National Park is not one place but a scatter of headlands, beaches and islands around Port Jackson, and…

19 tickets & tours

Royal National Park

New South Wales, Australia

The Royal National Park lies on the southern edge of Sydney, its northern boundary only about thirty kilometres, under…

5 tickets & tours

Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park

New South Wales, Australia

Ku-ring-gai Chase is a large park of sandstone bushland and drowned river valleys on the northern edge of Sydney, only…

2 tickets & tours

Worimi National Park

New South Wales, Australia

Worimi National Park forms part of the Worimi Conservation Lands, which protect the Stockton Bight dunes, an immense…

1 ticket or tour

Budderoo National Park

New South Wales, Australia

Budderoo lies on and beneath the sandstone escarpment of the Illawarra, on the south coast of New South Wales, about…

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Morton National Park

New South Wales, Australia

Morton is a very large park of sandstone plateaus, deep forested gorges and waterfalls on the escarpment of the…

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Nightcap National Park

New South Wales, Australia

Nightcap is a park of subtropical rainforest, cliffs and waterfalls in the hills behind the far north coast of New…

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Further afield, Worimi has the Stockton dunes near Port Stephens, sandboarded on 4×4 tours; Budderoo and Morton, in the Southern Highlands, have the Minnamurra rainforest and Fitzroy Falls; and Nightcap, inland from Byron Bay, is Gondwana rainforest with Minyon Falls.

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