William Howe Regional Park Plan of Management

William Howe Regional Park is located between Camden and Campbelltown, approximately 70 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district. The park was reserved in 1998 and is located on 43 hectares within the former estate granted to William Howe in 1818.

Date
1 October 2015
Publisher
Office of Environment and Heritage
Type
Publication, Plan of management, Final
Status
Final
Cost
Free
Language
English
Tags
  • ISBN 978-1-76039-192-8
  • ID OEH20150825
  • File PDF 2MB
  • Pages 59
  • Name william-howe-regional-park-plan-of-management-150825.pdf

William Howe Regional Park provides informal recreation opportunities including walking, picnicking, on-leash dog walking and cycling. A lookout in the park gives visitors panoramic views. According to some Aboriginal descendants, the hills were used by Aboriginal people as lookouts, for communication and for large gatherings.

Together with the adjoining Gundungurra Reserve, the park’s grassland areas preserve a cultural landscape of the European colonial period.

The native vegetation that is present within the park includes a small pocket of critically endangered Cumberland Plain Woodland and provides habitat for many native plants and animals. Habitat values are, and will continue to be, enhanced by the park’s location within the Narellan and Spring Farm Bush Corridor. This corridor links the Nepean River to the Australian Botanic Garden via various reserves, providing an important biodiversity link across an increasingly urbanised landscape.