Explore Namadgi National Park in the Australian

Climb or abseil the granite rock outcrops, outcrop two wheel bicycle along the blast trails or bushwalk into the Bimberi wilderness. Explore the campsites, formal boulder arrangements and rock art sites left by the Ngunawal population more than 21,000 years ago. Then locate the trail of pastoralists and gold hunters. Four wheel move ahead to the apex of Mt Coree, fish from trout-filled rivers and cross-country ski the winter slopes. See kangaroos, wallabies and north corroboree frogs and investigate snow-gum woodlands, wetlands and wildflower-cloaked plains.

Things you’ll find in Namadgi


Places for outdoor adventure

Follow the Yerrabi Walking Track into the rugged Bimberi natural areas, household to some of the slightest perturbed eco-systems in the Australian Alps. Explore woodlands of blizzard gum and alpine ash on the Square Rock sauntering track. Or unite a Namadgi ranger for a shown search of the fast-changing scenery. Go horseriding on the blast trails east of the Old Boboyan Road or on the National Bicentennial Horse Trail. Or attempt any of the more blast trails on a outcrop two wheel bicycle before lobbing your collapsible shelter in the bushland. Climb or abseil the granite rock outcrops or advance your adrenalin shot going paragliding, blue sky above diving, caving and canyoning. In winter you can depart cross-country skiing at Mount Franklin and Mount Gingera and stay overnight at Pryor's Hut.

A record of Aboriginal life

See old campsites with fragments of stone and living organism bone withdrew by the Ngunawal population during the terminal Ice Age. Then explore the ancient quarry sites where they put combined stone for tool making. Follow the Yankee Hat Walking Track to the rock painting sites of Yankee Hut Shelter. See where Ngunawal population harvested nut-flavoured bogong moths in Mount Kelly. Then visit their rite stone arrangements in the high apexes of Mount Namadgi. Take in numerous of Namadgi’s more than 50 sites of Ngunawal work on a manoeuvered tour. In nearby Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve you can pursue the Birrigai Time Trail behind 21,000 years to Birrigai Rock Shelter, the state’s oldest Aboriginal site. Here you can also visit Bogong Cave, where tribes put combined to receive bogong moths, and Tidbinbilla Mountain, a sacred initiation site for young Aboriginal men.

 

Stories of graziers, gold hunters and space tracking stations

The first pastoralists grazed sheep and beef cattle in the valleys and on gradients now topped up with emus and kangaroos. You can find their annals in the 1830s barriers, backyards, huts and homesteads that stay in the very broad valleys where they settled. Then glimpse components of the Kiandra gold trail that 1860s treasure seekers pursued in Gudgenby. Hike the Orroral Heritage Walking Track between the vintage Apollo space following positions at Orroral Valley and Honeysuckle Creek - the first location on soil to obtain pictures of Neil Armstrong strolling on the moon. Read the memorial brandish, then discover more about Australia’s excursions into space at the Deep Space Communication Complex in close by Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve.

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