Castle Heritage Park features walking tracks, picnic areas, playground and public toilets in a heritage-listed site within a bushland setting. The majority of the reserve is accessible for people with disabilities. With its 20 hectares of rolling landscaped hills and remnant Blue Gum forest, Heritage Park is a great location for family picnicking, walking and learning about nature.
It is the birthplace of Castle Hill. The main walking track has educational signs that follow a timeline history of the land from the use by the Dharug people, through establishment of the convict farm, church glebe, lunatic asylum, orchards and small farm holdings.
The park is one of the largest remaining stands of Blue Gum High Forest reserved in the world. The threatened Powerful Owl is known to use Castle Hill Heritage Park for hunting.
There are a number of issues affecting the bushland of Castle Hill Heritage Park, including fragmentation, invasion by weeds and feral animals and Bell Minor associated dieback resulting from an overpopulation of Bellbirds. The council, in partnership with bushcare groups and volunteers, is working towards restoring this endangered ecological community using a number of techniques including bush regeneration activities and ecological burns.
You will find the cache at:
S 29-89 28-14.84-16
E 37-54 37+80.29-30
And please be gentle around GZ, you don't have to go far.
