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Namadgi National Park Highlights FACT SHEET NAMADGI NATIONAL PARK HIGHLIGHTS Explore Namadgi National Park in the Australian Alps – a world of silent bushland, breathtaking vistas and rich Aboriginal history just a 45 minute drive from Canberra. Climb or abseil the granite rock outcrops, the granite rock outcrops or increase mountain bike along the fire trails or your adrenalin shot going paragliding, bushwalk into the Bimberi wilderness. skydiving, caving and canyoning. In Explore the campsites, ceremonial stone winter you can go cross-country skiing arrangements and rock art sites left at Mount Franklin and Mount Gingera by the Ngunnawal people more than and stay overnight at Pryor’s Hut. 21,000 years ago. Then trace the trail of pastoralists and gold hunters. Four wheel ABORIGINAL CULTURE drive to the top of Mt Coree, fish from trout-filled streams and cross-country See old campsites with fragments of stone ski the winter slopes. See kangaroos, and animal bone left by the Ngunnawal HISTORY wallabies and northern corroboree frogs people during the last Ice Age. Then and explore snow-gum woodlands, explore the ancient quarry sites where The first pastoralists grazed sheep and wetlands and wildflower-cloaked plains. they gathered stone for tool making. cattle in the valleys and on slopes now filled Follow the Yankee Hat Walking Track to the with emus and kangaroos. You can trace OUTDOOR ADVENTURE rock painting sites of Yankee Hat Shelter. their history in the 1830s fences, yards, See where Ngunnawal people harvested huts and homesteads that remain in the Follow the Yerrabi Walking Track which nut-flavoured bogong moths in Mount broad valleys where they settled. Then see offers impressive views of the rugged Kelly. Then visit their ceremonial stone parts of the Kiandra gold trail that 1860s Bimberi wilderness, home to some of arrangements in the high peaks of Mount fortune seekers followed in Gudgenby. Hike the least disturbed eco-systems in the Namadgi. Take in some of Namadgi’s more the Orroral Heritage Walking Track between Australian Alps. Explore forests of snow than 50 sites of Ngunnawal occupation the old Apollo space tracking stations at gum and alpine ash on the Square Rock on a guided tour. In nearby Tidbinbilla Orroral Valley and Honeysuckle Creek – the walking track. Or join a Namadgi ranger Nature Reserve you can follow the Birrigai first place on earth to receive images of for a guided exploration of the fast- Time Trail back 21,000 years to Birrigai Neil Armstrong walking on the moon. Read changing scenery. Go horseriding on the Rock Shelter, the state’s oldest Aboriginal the memorial display, then learn more fire trails east of the Old Boboyan Road site. Here you can also visit Bogong Cave, about Australia’s excursions into space at or on the National Bicentennial Horse where tribes gathered to collect bogong the Deep Space Communication Complex Trail. Or tackle any of the many fire trails moths, and Tidbinbilla Mountain, a sacred in nearby Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve. on a mountain bike before pitching your initiation site for young Aboriginal men. tent in the bushland. Climb or abseil FACT SHEET WILDLIFE DRIVING TRAILS USEFUL LINKS Follow the Naas Valley to Horse Gully Hut Follow the Two Sticks Road across the top of Walking Track to Nature’s Boarding House, the Brindabella Ranges to the top of Mount Australian Alps a huge tree where nearly 400 species of Coree, where you can take in spectacular www.australia.com/en/places/ Australian birds, bats and mammals have 360-degree views. Or take the gentle australian-alps.html built their dens, roosts and nests. See the Annie Trail to a deserted campground Namadgi National Park hardy native fish Mountain Galaxias in beside the Goodradigbee River. Tackle www.tams.act.gov.au/parks-recreation/ Naas Creek. Watch the vegetation morph the Mount Franklin Road as far as the parks_and_reserves/namadgi_ from woodland and dry forest on the low Ginini gate access road to Bendora Dam. national_park plains to towering eucalypts and fern These roads in the northern end of the gullies on the sheltered slopes. As you climb park, along with Old Mill Road and Warks higher you’ll see kangaroos and wallabies Road, are particularly suited to four-wheel grazing in the open grassland and frost driving. Drive to Corin Dam for the steep hollows, then Australian Paper Daisies climb to Stockyard Spur. If you’re taking a covering the heaths of the highest peaks. campervan, or just want to pitch a tent, Watch out for the rare broad-tooth rat, head to Honeysuckle Campground near the northern corroboree frog and river blackfish historic Honeysuckle Tracking Station site. in the sedge fens in the valleys and bogs Or set up base at Orroral Campground, on on the peaks. See the majestic wedge- the Orroral Heritage Walking Track. From tailed eagle wheeling through the air or Mount Clear Campground you can head off the smaller Australian Kestrel hovering on the Naas Valley to Horse Gully Hut walk. over grassy areas looking for a feed..
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