Mount Royal National Park

Mount Royal National Park
Eucalyptus in a steep mountain range near Mount Royal Ridge
Coordinates: 32 ° 12 ′ 1 ″  S , 151 ° 19 ′ 25 ″  E
Location:	New South Wales , Australia
Specialty:	Gondwana rainforests
Next city:	Muswellbrook
Surface:	69.2 km²
Founding:	January 1997

The Mount-Royal National Park is a national park in eastern Australian state of New South Wales , 187 kilometers north of Sydney and 50 kilometers east of Muswellbrook .

Mount Royal National Park contains part of the Barrington Tops Wilderness Area . The park is part of the Barrington Tops plateau and has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of the Gondwana Rainforests since 1986 . It borders Barrington Tops National Park to the north . Since 2007, Mount Royal National Park has also been on the Australian National Heritage List. About 20 percent of the area is covered with rainforest, the rest is eucalyptus forest or grassy woodland. The highest peaks of Mount Royal Ridge are Mount Royal in the middle, Mount Paterson in the north and Mount Carrow in the south.

Endangered species such as the Pseudomys oralis ( Hastings River Mouse ) also live in the forests of this park .

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• Mount Royal National Park . Office of Environment & Heritage. NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service