Limeburners Creek National Park

Limeburners Creek National Park is a protected national park located on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, Australia.

Spanning 9,123 hectares, the park is situated north of Port Macquarie and lies across both the Kempsey Shire and Port Macquarie-Hastings Council local government areas. The park was declared a nature reserve in 1971 and upgraded to a national park status in 2010.

The park holds cultural significance to the local Birpai and Dunghutti people. The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS NSW) have been actively conserving and preserving Indigenous sites within the park, such as stone quarries and burial sites. NPWS NSW has been working with local Aboriginal elders and Land Councils since 2006 to develop a Cultural Camp in the park.

Limeburners Creek National Park has a historical background as the site of a lime manufacturing industry during Port Macquarie's early European settlement. It was also part of the Orara Gold Field in 1881 and saw sand mining in the 1960s. The land was declared a nature reserve in 1971 and upgraded to national park status in 2010.

The park consists of predominantly dunal and swampy land, with sandy soils deposited by the ancestral Hastings River. It contains eight wetlands supported by coastal dune systems and headlands. Saltwater Lake is a major geographic feature. Erosion is a significant concern, particularly in the active dunes along the coast.

Limeburners Creek National Park experiences a subtropical climate, with February being the wettest month and August being the driest.

The park sustains several critically endangered ecological communities, including coastal saltmarsh, swamp oak flood