Namadgi National Park

Fast Facts

Name: Namadgi National Park

Location: Naas Road (two kilometres past Tharwa), ACT

Opening hours: Open throughout the year.

Description: Namadgi National Park lies just out of Canberra and has a rich cultural history with evidence of life existing around 21, 000 years ago.

This is the perfect spot for hiking, cycling and camping, or even just a picnic. Weather dependent.

Price Guide: $

Phone: 02 6207 2900

Part of the Australian Alps national parks, Namadgi National Park covers an area of 105,900hectares, more than half the area of the Australian Capital Territory.

The Indigenous word for mountains, Namadgi lies northwest section is at the south of Canberra's outer suburbs and its northwest section joins Kosciuszko National Park.

When you arrive, be sure to see the Namadgi Visitor Centre that provides information about how best to spend your day at the park. You can also enjoy its several displays and a theatre production.

At Namadgi National Park you can go camping in the specified camping areas (fees apply), you can go 4WDing as well as picnicking, bushwalking and sightseeing its many protected animals, plants and cultural sites.

If you wish, you can also go cycling on the formed roads and horse riding along the designated horse trail, part of the National Bicentennial Trial.

Namadgi National Park has significant cultural heritage. Just north of Namadgi National Park there is a rock shelter that exists of evidence that Indigenous people existed in the region during the last ice age 21,000 years ago when the Namadgi Ranges were covered in snow for most of the year.