Glenrock Lagoon Escalada en roca 118 vías en escuela

The park preserves a considerable proportion of what remains of Newcastle’s physical Aboriginal heritage. The majority of sites have been destroyed or covered over by development of the city of Newcastle. The existence and protection of sites so close to the centre of the city makes the park highly significant to Aboriginal people. At least five Aboriginal site types are known to occur in Glenrock – shell middens, stone scatters, axe grinding grooves, quarry sites and a traditional Aboriginal pathway. Rock shelters with shallow earth floors may have been used for camping in prehistoric times and it is probable that some of these may contain artefacts. No systematic archaeological survey has been carried out in the park and it is likely that further sites would be found were such a survey conducted, particularly if it occurred immediately after fire when ground surface visibility is enhanced. The Awabakal community, Awabakal Traditional Owners and the Awabakal Local Aboriginal Land Council are concerned that Aboriginal sites may be subject to acts of vandalism and prefer that the location of most of their sites is kept secret. They have given permission for a number of representative sites to be interpreted, including the Burwood Beach quarry site, a traditional Aboriginal pathway and the open camp site and midden at the mouth of Glenrock Lagoon. The cliffs and coastline of the park with their exposed layers of tuff, coal and ochre have been a manufacturing and export centre for thousands of years. The Awabakal particularly prized the many layers of rhyolitic tuff, a stone which is rich in silica, hard, smooth and fine grained. It is the hardest form of this rock that was used in tool manufacture. The Awabakal used this stone to make sharp-edged tools such as chisels, scrapers, gravers and rasps which were then used to manufacture wooden implements such as boomerangs, clubs, spear throwers, shields, food and water containers, canoes and paddles. An outcrop of this rock that could be easily quarried, like that found in the headlands from Merewether to Glenrock Lagoon, was an extremely valuable resource.

Roped Climbing and abseiling has occurred for over 50 years, initially by the scouting movement.