The Darling Scarp, which was earlier known as the Darling Range, is a low escarpment. The Darling Scarp extends along the Pacific coast, north and south of Perth, Australia. The escarpment is an ancient fault-line. It separates Perth Basin’s younger sedimentary rocks from the continent’s ancient cratonic interior.

The Darling escarpment has been subject to exploitation for the last century for stone quarries, Forestry and Bauxite Mining. Because of the high quality jarrah forests, the escarpment was lined with extensive timber railways, mills, and the supporting communities.

A regional park has been created, by connecting the network of reserves of crown lands. This is part of the effort at conservation of parts of the escarpment. Most of the reserves or parks had individual names before they were incorporated into the larger park. The Serpentine National Park, the Greenmount National Park and John Forrest National Park, or were simply known as State Forests.