 Ku-ring-gai Chase is also officially classed as a suburb by the Geographical Names Board of New South Wales.The park is managed by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service and was added to the Australian National Heritage List in December 2006.The park was named after its original inhabitants, an Aboriginal group called the Kuring-gai or Guringai, and called a "chase" to indicate it was an area of natural bush which was not enclosed by fences.