Yengo National Park

The Yengo National Park is a protected national park that is located in the Lower Hunter region of New South Wales, in eastern Australia. The Template:Convert park is situated Template:Convert northwest of Sydney, Template:Convert south of Template:NSWcity, Template:Convert northwest of Template:NSWcity, and Template:Convert southwest of Template:NSWcity.<ref name="oeh" /><ref name="oehgetthere">Template:Cite web</ref> The average elevation of the terrain is 309 metres.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

The Yengo National Park is one of the eight protected areas that, in 2000, was inscribed to form part of the UNESCO World HeritageTemplate:Endashlisted Greater Blue Mountains Area.<ref name=whl>Template:Cite web</ref> The Yengo National Park is the most northTemplate:Endasheasterly of the eight protected areas within the World Heritage Site. The national park forms part of the Great Dividing Range.

Features

The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) opened their depot in Bucketty in 1993 and commenced managing the newly established Yengo National Park. A helipad, known as 'Bucketty International' was established and in 1995 a fire tower was built, following severe fires in the area. In 1999 the NPWS acquired parts of the Crown land that lay between Bucketty and the Yengo National Park. This new area also included the Convict Wall and the amphitheatre used by the community.

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Aerial perspective of the Grey Gum International Cafe, nestled between the Yengo and Wollemi national parks on an autumn morning. February 2018.

The Bucketty community asked NPWS to recognise their custodianship of the place and in early 2000, the community, together with the NPWS, developed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly manage the site.

Access to Yengo National Park is via Yengo Creek Road off the Great North Road, near Template:NSWcity. The park is bounded in the east by the small settlements of Bucketty and Template:NSWcity; in the north by Wollombi Brook; in the west by the Putty Road, the settlements of Template:NSWcity and Template:NSWcity, and the Mellong Range; and in the south by the Parr State Conservation Area, the settlement of Template:NSWcity, Webbs Creek, Mogo Creek, the Hawkesbury River, and the Dharug National Park.<ref name=pom>Template:Cite book</ref>

The course of the Macdonald River flows from the northwest of the national park towards the southeast, where it reaches its confluence with the Hawkesbury River.<ref name=pom/>

Bushfires of 2019/2020

In the summer of 2019/2020, Yengo National Park was engulfed in the largest bushfire from a single ignition point that Australia has known; this fire became known as the Gospers Mountain Fire.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Nearly all the national park was burnt.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Wildlife

This is a place of great biodiversity. The park is home to over 50 species of mammals, such as wombats, wallaroos, koalas and gliding possums and over 200 species of birds.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

See also

• Protected areas of New South Wales

External links

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