Nielsen Park is a highly modified landscape that reflects three phases of occupation pre settlement landscape a modified landscape seen as both a natural and planned picturesque landscapearound Greycliffe House and a public landscape for recreation that includes a number of support structures. In addition the Steel Point fortifications add a further layer to the use and appearance of the park. Nielsen Park has had its pre settlement landscape dramatically altered by extensive clearing and modifying of landforms and vegetation but also by replanting and regenerating a form of natural bushland on recent years of the overall impression that areas of the landscape appear similar to that which existed prior to European settlement. However the areas of nativ vegetation that now exist do not reflect the form of the historic native landscape has taken place during the NPWS management of the site and contrasts to the Trust management that focused on the recreational aspects of the place.
