Thread: Mt Walker is now a National Park!

Yea I herd this too and saw the sign. I was going to bring my muts along but thought it was a NP , next it will be gated and shut down

cheers
Will Vine.

I will put on my assocition hat and check it out.
Flash

Just did the big google and spent about 30 mins looking in to it. Not much info about but "Marrangaroo National Park
Park area: 1,670 hectares
Year the park was created: 2007" was quoted from NPWS site. No more info was available so I suspect your right. You can find out about te park by contacting npws at Blackheath. I'll try make a trip there tomorrow but I don't think I'll have the time.

Xavier

Checked with Blackheath National Parks office yesterday. Ranger who looks after Marrangaroo National park is Dave Noble who is part time and difficult to get hold of. I found out from another office that there is a preliminary draft plan of management and a map . I was told these were currently confidential and could not be supplied. I wiil persue via 4WD Association contacts.
I suspect Mt Walker is not in the park but all access to Mt Walker is through the park other than the track down to the Western HWY which runs through private property.

Interesting. Mt Walker was definitely part of Dr Sugarman's parcel that he sold to NPWS. I wonder if the park boundaries are different - park & crown land?

And I have an idea that in Bob Carr's time, weren't NPWS & State Forests merged? If so there's an awful lot of land up there under the control of NPWS.

Regards
Max P

There's only one way in now, all access is closed via a locked gate apart from coming in via the river.

I've heard it will close soon

Alot of the tracks on the way from the powerlines have been blocked off and there will be more to come.

The section near Mog Hill has been NP for a while, i think it starts at the top of the hill, left side not the river side.

Baz.

Originally Posted by Redback

There's only one way in now, all access is closed via a locked gate apart from coming in via the river.

I've heard it will close soon

Alot of the tracks on the way from the powerlines have been blocked off and there will be more to come.

The section near Mog Hill has been NP for a while, i think it starts at the top of the hill, left side not the river side.

Baz.

Wasn't there a successful legal challenge to the "thing-a-me-bob" Swamp track off the Putty Road against the NP&WS on the grounds that the track which passed through a portion of national park was a thoroughfare to other public land. The argument against Mt Walker roads closures would be that the only other access to the public land of Mt Walker is via private land.

Diana