Parks and the outdoors in Glen Innes

Parks and the outdoors in Glen Innes

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   Bellbird Campground

   Washpool National Park

   This campground is suitable for tents, camper-trailers, and caravans. There are picnic tables, gas barbecue facilities, and toilets. Bringing your own gas barbecue, drinking water, and cooking water is recommended. The Coombadjha Walk leads to the Coachwood Picnic Area and the Coombadjha Nature Stroll, and walking back down Coachwood Drive to the intersection with Moogem Trail leads to the Gibraltar Washpool World Heritage Walk. No bins so take your rubbish with you. No pets, no smoking, and do not feed the wildlife.

   $8 per vehicle per day - see website for payment details. Camping - bookings required

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   Boundary Falls Campground and Picnic Area

   Gibraltar Range National Park

   This campground has a single pit toilet, picnic tables, wood barbecue (firewood supplied). Unpowered sites only. Bring your own drinking and cooking water, take your litter with you when you leave. Access point to Duffer Creek, Lyrebird Falls Walking Track, and the Gibraltar-Washpool World Heritage Walk. Boudary Falls waterfall is nearby. No pets. No smoking.

   $8 per vehicle per day - see here for details. Camping: phone for rates, reservations required

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   Coachwood Picnic Area

   Washpool National Park

   A picnic area situated in a rainforest clearing with Coombadja Creek nearby, visitors can take advantage of picnic tables, free gas and wood barbecues, and toilets. Starting point for the Coombadjha Nature Stroll. Bring own drinking water. No bins so take your rubbish out with you. No pets. No smoking.

   $8 per vehicle per day - see website for payment details

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   Coombadjha Campground

   Washpool National Park

   This campground has pit toilets, picnic tables, wood barbecues (firewood supplied), bring your own drinking and cooking water. Starting point for the Coombadjha Nature Stroll and the Washpool Walk. Take your rubbish out with you. No pets. Do not feed the animals.

   $8 per vehicle per day. Camping for tents only - bookings required, phone for rates and availability

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   Granite Picnic Area

   Washpool National Park

   This picnic area has pit toilets, picnic tables, free gas and electric barbecues, bring your own drinking and cooking water. Take 800 m walk to the Granite Lookout. No bins so take your rubbish with you. No pets. No smoking. Do not feed the animals.

   $8 per vehicle per day - see website for payment details

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   Kings Plains National Park

   Kings Plains offers excellent bushwalking, swimming, ephemeral waterfalls. Campground (tents only, unpowered sites), picnic tables, barbecue facilities, toilets. Bring own drinking water, cooking water, firewood. No mobile phone signal.

   Free entry - bookings required for camping

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   Mann River Nature Reserve

   An excellent spot for picnicking, camping (reservations required), scenic views, fishing, and swimming. See Tommy's Rock Lookout on its walking track. Campsite has toilets, picnic tables, and barbecue facilities (subject to fire bans). No pets, no smoking. Bring your binoculars and cameras.

   Free entry

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   Mulligans Campground

   Gibraltar Range National Park

   Campground with flush toilets, picnic tables, wood barbecues (bring your own firewood) and gas barbecues (free), cold showers, unpowered camping sites. Starting point for The Needles walking track, Forest walking track, Murrumbooee Cascades walking track, Little Dandahra Creek walking track, Dandahra Crags, and Gibraltar-Washpool World Heritage Walk.

   Entry: $8 per vehicle per day - see here for details. Camping: phone for rates - reservations required

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   Raspberry Lookout

   Gibraltar Range National Park

   This lookout offers amazing views across the Bindery-Mann Wilderness Area, this place has been used for centuries as a vantage point. Bring binoculars and cameras. The weather here can be unpredictable as is it affected by both coastal and inland weather systems, so be prepared and bring appropriate clothing. Car park has pit toilets and picnic tables. Bring your own drinking water, take your rubbish with you. No pets. No smoking.

   Entry: $8 per vehicle per day - see here for details.

10. Do Not mapped

    Mountain biking

    There's 80 km of trails altogether in the Gibraltar Range National Park and Washpool National Park - see here for suggestions.

Listings from the Wikivoyage guide to Glen Innes (CC BY-SA 4.0).