Activities for Kids
at Yanga National Park

Discover fascinating chapters of our natural, pastoral and Aboriginal heritage with a visit to Yanga National Park, one of the state's newest national parks. From Aboriginal families to explorers and pioneers, shearers and rabbit trappers, fisherman and campers - people have been visiting Yanga for thousands of years, now it's your turn! Picnic with the family, or unwind for a week and enjoy a choice of settings, complemented by an array of new visitor facilities. Nestled along the 170km of Murrumbidgee River frontage are campgrounds, bushwalks and plenty of spots to wet your fishing line. Or if you prefer to keep your feet dry, there’s also a campground further inland on the plains. Yanga National Park is also known as Murrumbidgee Valley National Park. It forms part of the Lower Murrumbidgee Floodplain, and includes extensive Murrumbidgee River frontage, wetlands, lakes and breeding grounds for waterbirds. It includes approximately 76,000 hectares of river red gum forest, black box – nitre goosefoot swamp, belah-rosewood woodlands, native grassland and saltbush plains. The park was a working pastoral, cropping and irrigation property for over 160 years. It has important Aboriginal and historic heritage values such as scar trees, ovens, middens and other artefacts, and historic buildings. The NSW Department of Environment and Conservation purchased Yanga for its natural and cultural heritage values in November 2005.