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Berowra Valley Regional Park

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Berowra Valley vistaBerowra Valley Regional Park straddles large parts of the Berowra Creek catchment from Pennant Hills to Berowra Waters covering about 4,000 hectares or 8 percent of the shire.

Featuring expansive bushland scenery, it has enormous opportunities for bushwalking and recreation, protects the habitat of native flora and fauna and has many Aboriginal sites.

Park management

Gazetted as a regional park on 27 March 1998, the park is owned and primarily managed by the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS). Enquiries about the park can be made by calling the NPWS on (02) 9457 9006. Council undertakes specific roles within the park including the management of Crosslands Reserve.

Guide bookA guide to Berowra Valley Regional Park

This 260 page, coloured guide book describes the park history, bushwalking tracks and picnic areas, landscape, flora and fauna, threatened species and management challenges. For more information on the authors, visit the Friends of Berowra Valley Regional Park website (external).

Bushfire management

Fire mitigation and suppression in the park is undertaken by NPWS directed by the Fire Management Strategy (external website). 

Plan of Management - Berowra Valley Regional Park

In 2005 the NSW Minister for the Environment adopted a Plan of Management for the park. Copies are available from Council's libraries or download the Plan of Management - Berowra Valley Regional Park (715Kb).

Dog walking in the park

The Plan of Management restricts dog walking in the park to three fire trails which can be viewed in the Plan of Management section on pdf file Introduced Animals (25Kb).