Bangadilly National Park
Bangadilly National Park is a national park located around 20 km west of Bowral in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales. Established in 2001, it is made up of three separate, similarly sized areas of land totalling 2,141 hectares in area. It consists of sandstone plateaus and gorges bordering the Wingecarribee River.
The park is covered by open eucalypt forest and woodland, of which nine specific vegetation communities have been catalogued. Common tree species on the plateaus include several from the Sydney Basin at the southwestern limits of their distribution, such as the grey gum, silvertop ash, hard-leaved scribbly gum and blue-leaved stringybark . Tablelands species are more common in the slopes and valleys and include the yellow box , red stringybark , Argyle apple , brittle gum and apple box . Areas with deeper soils are home to the river peppermint , manna gum and river oak.
Rare flora found in the national park include net-veined wattle, narrow-leaved mallee ash and.
Emus have been found in the park and the river is a key habitat for platypus.
Rare fauna that have been found in the park include the powerful owl glossy black cockatoo, speckled warbler spotted-tailed quoll, yellow-bellied glider, common bent-wing bat, large-eared pied bat, greater broad-nosed bat, eastern false pipistrelle, and koala. Other species likely to occur include the regent honeyeater, turquoise parrot, smoky mouse, Australian masked owl, swift parrot and hooded robin.
The Mount Penang loop walk is a 3 km loop track in the northwestern section of the park that takes 2.5 to 3.5 hours to complete.
