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Crown Reserves
The Crown Reserve System is the oldest and most diverse system of land management in NSW. It promotes the cooperative care, control, and management of Crown reserves by the 
community with assistance from LPMA, other government agencies and reserve users.
LPMA has been reserved for public purposes in NSW since colonial times. Crown reserves are land set aside on behalf of the community for a wide range of public purposes including environmental and heritage protection, recreation and sport, open space, community halls and special events.
Reserves are created to protect and manage important community resources and are administered under the Crown Lands Act 1989.
Many popular recreation areas are Crown reserves. Hyde Park and Bondi Beach in Sydney are two famous examples of our Crown reserve system at work.
There are about 33,000 Crown reserves with a total area of 2.5 million hectares across NSW - about three percent of the land area of the State.
Crown Reserve publications
Download our NSW Crown reserves brochure (PDF 1.1Mb in PDF format)
The Regional Reserve Strategy (PDF 2.6 mb)
Ryde Riverside Crown Reserve (PDF 4 mb)
Port Stephens Regional Crown Reserve (PDF 7.8 mb)
Dargan Dam Reserve (PDF 211 kb) scheduled risk management strategy update - the reserve is currently undergoing a risk management strategy and preliminary assessments have shown that the area poses significant public risk. As such the reserve will be closed to the public until the risk management strategy is completed.
