Lane Cove National Park
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Date: 2022-01-20

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The Lane Cove National Park is a protected national park that is located within metropolitan Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia.
The 372-hectare （920-acre） national park is situated about 10 kilometres （6.2 mi） north-west of the Sydney central business district and features various vegetation types, such as, wet and dry sclerophyll forest, heathland, mangroves and tidal flats.
The park consists of land near the banks of the Lane Cove River, which flows generally south-east into Sydney Harbour.
It also extends to the outskirts of Pennant Hills and Wahroonga at its northern boundaries.
The park includes areas of land which are part of Ku-ring-gai, Ryde, and Hornsby local government areas with small areas of the park in Willoughby, Lane Cove and Hunter's Hill local government areas on the banks of the lower reaches of the river.
The park is surrounded on all sides by developed suburban areas and except for the upper northwestern region is never more than a kilometre wide.
Much of the park is of fairly rugged terrain on the slopes of the river valley and covered by dense bush.
The characteristics of the bush vary depending upon soils and topography.
Parts of the park are affected by weed infestations, such as Fiddens Wharf and Fairyland.
The central section of the park, between De Burghs Bridge on Ryde Road and Fullers Bridge, was set aside as a park in the 1920s and developed with picnic areas interspersed in the bush along the banks of the river.
The majority of these picnic areas are located between the Fuller's Road bridge and the road that leads towards the Tourist Park.
North of this point the area becomes more rugged and there are no picnic areas until the Tunks Hill （previously known as Tunks Farm） ...