Yankee Hat rock art
Wednesday 6 August 2025: Yankee Hat Rock Art ! – S/E. A pneumonia recovery slow stroll to the newly reopened rock art.
Summary
From Garmin Connect (recorded on Epix Gen 2) – Distance: 7.04km | Climb: 165vm | Time: 1:40 moving + 0:23 of stops = 2:03 | Grading: S/E; E(6).
Photographs
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Track Maps
Here’s where I went:
Track Yankee Hat Rock Art
Trip Report
I was last at the Yankee Hat rock art on 27 May 19.
An attempt at this destination and some more on 30 Jul 25. I walked less than 3km, then died in the car whilst the ladies went on.
A lovely day. The Boboyan Road was busy with roos, wallabies, wombats (sadly road kill) and stray cattle. I broke the ice at the Hospital Creek second ford. A favourite view from the car park to the hills at the heart of Namadgi National Park.
View from Yankee Hat carpark
The theme of the track is fire protection, starting with the guide posts.
New steel bridge and walkway over Bogong Creek
The new bridge and walkway are in rusty coloured steel.
New steel bridge and walkway over Bogong Creek
When you’re an old codger, you can remember when the 2020 fire-burnt wooden bridge and walkway were new!
Some sympathetic stone steps up and over a small wooded knoll. I took a detour to Sinclairs Hut and well site.
Sinclairs Hut site
A section of low steel walkway protects and crossed a drainage line.
Low steel walkway
The track winds gently up towards the tree line of Yankee Hat North, past the red asterisk on the map – a house-sized boulder.
Boulder under Yankee Hat North
A visitors book, entries making more sense to me 20 minutes later.
Visitors Book
And so to several hundred metres of steel walkway leading to (and from) the rock art.
New steel walkway approaching the rock art
Great new signage.
Yankee Hat rock art signage
(Although pump up the zoom and see if you can spot the homophone – it’s in “plane” sight.)
More steel walkway. I like its protection of the area and it will no doubt blend in as time goes by.
New steel walkway approaching the rock art
The rock art site.
Yankee Hat rock art
The steel walkway continues onto the NE and E, ending at a signpost on a management track that returns S to the visitors book. So the comments in the visitors book make sense now.
Returned the the Bogong Creek bridge on the track. Views to the smiley face on the flank of Hospital Hill that I have a thing about at the moment.
Smiling Rock
Back over the bridge I wandered down the true right side of Bogong Creek.
Bogong Creek under the Yankee Hats
A reminder not to drink untreated water from creeks – dead karga.
Bogong Creek – why you don’t drink ‘pristine’ water
A look at the start of the Gudgenby River.
Confluence of Bogong and Middle Creeks to form Gudgenby River
Returned to the carpark around the nearby knoll.
The AllTrails map is here, where you can pan and zoom.
Party
Just moi.