Royal National Park in Sydney is Australia’s oldest National Park, and after Yellowstone in the USA, the second oldest in the World. Gazetted in 1879 as The National Park, it was renamed Royal National Park after Queen Elizabeth’s visit to Australia in 1954. It has over 100km of walking tracks to enjoy, from the rugged, exposed coastal trek of 30km along The Coast Track to the more sedate and sheltered 10km walk along the bush track of Lady Carrington Drive. Spreading over 16,300 hectares the Royal National Park is as diverse as it is vast. In the sandstone sections of the park, vegetation is restricted by the shallow soil beds but in more sheltered creek systems where the soil can lie deeper and richer, it gives birth to an abundance of plant and tree life. Rivers have cut their way through the sandstone over millenia to create a maze of waterholes, creeks and lagoons as they wind towards the ocean, providing many a secluded place to cool off in after a tiring walk, and providing a valuable drinking source for the native rock and swamp wallabies, echidna, native rats and mice and the imported Rusa deer that abound in the park. Royal National Park is also home to over 700 species of flowering plants and countless species of birds, that you are sure to encounter and enjoy on any bushwalk you choose to do in the park.
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