Urban tree canopy planned for trail linking Parramatta to lower Blue Mountains

The Great West Walk - a 65-kilometre urban trail linking Parramatta to the lower Blue Mountains –will have more than 26,000 new trees planted along the walk to provide cooler temperatures and help link green spaces.

Sections of the Great West Walk currently have low tree canopy cover and can be eight to 11 degrees warmer than other parts of Sydney.

The planting will include:

• 3200 trees planted at Tregear Reserve in Tregear (Blacktown)

• 7600 trees in Toongabbie Creek in Winston Hills (Parramatta)

• 100 trees at Ironbark Reserve in Cranebrook (Penrith)

• 9000 trees at multiple sites across the walk.

The initiative is part of the NSW Premier’s Priority to increase the tree canopy and green cover across Greater Sydney by planting one million trees by 2022. More than 500,000 trees have been planted so far.

Image: planted trees on the Great West Walk