Foundation Tracks

Bushwalking takes us into the heart of our national parks and wilderness areas, and lets us truly experience the beauty and diversity of Australia’s natural heritage. At the same time every visitor to a national park or wilderness area has an impact on the natural environment.

Well established and maintained tracks protect both bushwalkers and the surrounding native vegetation.

By funding walkways and viewing platforms we enable people to enjoy Australia’s natural environment without damaging it. We also fund special facilities for the mobility impaired, so that everyone can go bush.

Bungonia State Conservation Area 175 km south-west of Sydney, 35 km east of Goulburn
Bungonia Lookdown
Bungonia Lookdown overlooks Australia’s largest slot canyon. Foundation funds provided lookouts, picnic areas, revegetation and nature trails for the site.

Deua National Park 30km from Braidwood
Big Hole & Marble Arch
The track begins at Beralang Camping Ground. After crossing the Shoalhaven River the track winds up to the two highly significant geological sites Big Hole and Marble Arch.

The track was upgraded through a donation by the Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation. The upgrade included re-routing and interpretive signage. 1993

Sydney Harbour National Park
Hermitage ForeshoreTrack
This walk from Nielsen Park to Rose Bay offers magnificent views of Sydney Harbour, the city and its green foreshores. Timber stairways, boardwalks and sandstne steps make it an easy 1.5 km walk for everyone.

The track was upgraded through funding from the Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation and a 30,000 dollar contribution from the Foundation’s Sydney committee.

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Blue Mountains National Park 50-100km west of Sydney
Fairfax Heritage Track (Govett’s Leap, Blackheath)
The track provides wheelchair access to Govett’s Leap, one of the most spectacular lookouts of the Grose Valley. The track starts at the Visitor Centre and winds through native bushland, which is especially delightful during the wildflower season.

Grose Valley Tracks
The Grose Valley, its wilderness, Victoria Falls and the Blue Gum Forest are popular destinations for experienced bush-walkers in Blue Mountains National Park.

The Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife helped organise the production and installation of four interpretative signs with track details, orientation maps and information about the area at Victoria Falls Lookout, Point Pilcher, Perry's Lookdown and Lockleys Pylon Trackhead. A contribution towards the funding of this project was made by the Up & Downers Bushwalking Club in memory of their Founder Herb Lippmann and his wife Yu Hua Liu. They were tragically killed in a bus crash in Tibet in April 2003.

Ruined Castle to Mt Solitary Track
This track takes experienced walkers from Ruined Castle south east along the saddle to Koorowall Knife Edge. The route to the top of Mt Solitary is a steep rocky scramble to the narrow ridge and an informal track traverses Mount Solitary.

The Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife helped organise the production and installation of interpretative signs with track details, orientation maps and information about the area at the trackhead near the Ruined Castle Loop Track as part of the Herb Lippmann memorial described above.

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Warrumbungles National Park 35km west of Coonabarabran
Gurianawa Track
The Gurianawa Track circumnavigates the knoll adjacent to the Warrumbungles Visitors Centre. It provides ready access to a limited bush experience for those who are unable through constraints of time or physical ability to taken on the more demanding tracks in the park. The park allows access to sites to view a variety of habitats and abundant wildlife in the area.

Botany Bay National Park 15-30km south of Sydney
Monument track & Banks/Solander Walk
The Banks/Solander walkway provides an important educational asset at the historic site. Interpretive signs highlight points of interest and identify significant plants and shrubs. This walk was funded through sponsorship by Caltex.

The Monument track links the museum and the Captain Cooks Obelisk. The track has been designed to be used by everyone including the elderly and disabled.

Royal National Park 32 km south of Sydney
Bungoona Track
Running through the Royal’s ridgetop landscape this path allows wheelchair access from the park visitor centre to Bungoona Lookout from. At the lookout enjoy panoramic views of the national park and the Hacking River.

Red Cedar Track
This track in Royal National Park is currently being upgraded with Foundation funds. Bush regeneration work, repair of stairs and installation of signage will reopen the walking track link between Red Cedar and Karingal picnic areas and link it with the Lillyvale walking track.

Morton National Park 150-200km south of Sydney
East Rim Wildflower Walk
The 5.5 kilometre track takes about two hours with many lookouts along the way.

The track starts at the footbridge on the eastern side of the falls and takes the visitor through the escarpment, down to Fern Tree Gully, then up to Warragong Lookout where the side view of Fitzroy Falls can be seen. It then follows the cliff face to Valley View Lookout where superb views of the top of Twin Falls and the plateau of Mount Carrialoo can be seen. In memory of botanist Janet Cosh the Foundation funded interpretive signage which educates visitors on the unique native flora of the Sydney sandstone escarpment.

Other Foundation tracks are in Mt Kaputar National Park, Hat Head National Park (Smokey Cape), Barrington Tops National Park, Dobroyd Head, Jamison Valley and Boonoo Boonoo National Park.

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