Nattai National Park

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Nattai National Park New South Wales
IUCN category II (national park)
Nattai National Park, from Wollondilly lookout.
Nattai National Park
Nearest town or city	Oakdale
Coordinates	34°17′22″S 150°21′37″E / 34.28944°S 150.36028°E / -34.28944; 150.36028
Established	13 December 1991 (1991-12-13)[1]
Area	489.84 km2 (189.1 sq mi)[1]
Visitation	1,000 (in 1997)
Managing authorities	NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service
Website	Nattai National Park
See also	Protected areas of New South Wales

The Nattai National Park is a protected arealocated in the Macarthur and Southern Highlands regions of New South Wales, Australia.^[2] The 48,984-hectare (121,040-acre) area is situated approximately 150 kilometres (93 mi) southwest of the Sydney central business district and primarily encompasses the valley of the Nattai River, which is surrounded by sandstone cliffs. Part of the Southern Highlands Shale Forest and Woodland, the park is covered in dry sclerophyll (hard-leafed) forest – mostly eucalypt, and has frequent forest fires. As of May 2024, the park has no facilities.^[3]

The Nattai National Park is one of the eight protected areas that, in 2000, was inscribed to form part of the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Greater Blue Mountains Area.^[4] The Nattai National Park is the most southern of the eight protected areas within the World Heritage Site. The national park forms part of the Great Dividing Range.

The national park is bounded to the north by the Nattai State Conservation Area, the Burragorang State Conservation Area, and Lake Burragorang, inclusive of a 3-kilometre (1.9 mi) exclusion zone surrounding the lake; to the east by the Bargo State Conservation Area and the now partly disused Picton – Mittagong loop railway line; to the south by the Wombeyan Caves Road; to the southwest by the Kanangra-Boyd National Park; and to the west by the Yerranderie State Conservation Area. Blue Mountains National Park does not directly adjoin the Nattai National Park, but is located on the northwestern shore of Lake Burragorang.^[5]

The Nattai National Park contains much of the course and catchment of the Little, Nattai, Allum and Wollondilly rivers.^[5]