Wyangan Picnic Area, Macquarie Woods Recreation Park & Cathedral Reserve

February/March 2025

Lake Wyangan Picnic Area is a 10 minute drive NW of Griffith(NSW) – a 309 hectare former gypsum mine & natural swamp area it is home to peacocks, geese, kangaroo’s, water fowls & numerous birds. It offers a free camp location for a maximun of 3 night stay, lotz of facilities available & a great spot.

Macquarie Woods Recreation Park, Vittoria State Forest is 30 minutes W of Bathurst on the road to Orange & has both pine plantations and native forest, also home to a variety of native fauna. It was another great free camp with such a large area.

Cathedral Reserve – a free camp in the northern part of the Blue Mts about a 45 minute drive from Katoomba in the hills of Mt Wilson, it is one of the largest free campgrounds in the Blue Mts National Park. Has great drop toilets & lotz of firepits available, a great base of hikers. Mid afternoon the mist/fog enveloped us -WOW! so quick & at times you could only see a few metres in front of you. We had an enjoyable walk along the fern edged tracks.