Towarri National Park

Towarri National Park and Wingen Maid Nature Reserve cover a rugged part of the Liverpool Range and contain an incredible variety of plants and wildlife including Snow Gums, Grass Trees, Spinifex and River Oak. Towarri is located just 21kms from Scone. If you are keen on bird-watching, look out for Powerful Owls, Gliders, Yellow-tufted Honeyeaters, Kingfishers, Glossy Black Cockatoos and Rosellas. Enjoy the Washpools campsite and picnic area with basic facilities provided.

Even the drive into the park is amazing as the Wingen Maid is visible from the road. The ancestral figure of the Wingen Maid is important to the Wonnarua people who were the first people to live in this area. Legend has it that a woman sat and waited for her warrior husband to return from battle at the end of a sandstone cliff. Distraught when he did not return, she asked Biami to take her life. Biami took pity on her and instead turned her to stone. As she turned to stone, her tears rolled down the hillside and burst into flames, igniting and forming the famous Burning Mountain across the valley.

For more information visit www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au