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Newnes Plateau Camping Options
hamish_b
2-Feb-2015
6:10:38 PM
Hey all,
I'm doing a climbing/canyoning trip next weekend and am planning to try and camp out on the Newnes plateau. Anyone got any good drive in camping spots that are relatively bogun free? Deep pass is pretty good, but you can't drive there anymore. I wonder whether you can get all the way out to camp on the clifftops like at Crag X. I have a 4WD but its only an Xtrail. Perhaps GPS coordinates might help.....

Theres the obvious one with all the pine trees you drive past but thats the kind of bogun infested chainsaw massacre i was hoping to avoid. I suppose there is always Mt York and just drive the extra mile......(s)

Thanks in advance

Hamish

figs
2-Feb-2015
6:19:35 PM
I camped there recently and had to move after the first night because of some bogan neighbours. Ended up crossing the 4WD creek, turning left, and stopping at the first campsite on left side of the road. A bit of traffic but no neighbours at all.

rodw
2-Feb-2015
7:08:04 PM
You can camp anywhere as its all state forest, no idea why people camp at the pines (ie Bungleborri campground). Last time I was out at Sahara pt (ie Crag x) is was freshly graded....but even before that an X trail would have no issues....i had a Suzuki Sierra when we did it.

Instructions on how to get there here.....

http://www.thecrag.com/climbing/australia/gardens-of-stone-area/sahara-point

Closer option is camping at Bung Crag, your X trail will have no issues....

http://www.thecrag.com/climbing/australia/gardens-of-stone-area/bung-crag

As with both cases you need to take water (pretty much the norm for the plateau) ..though with recent rain a few steams will be flowing.....note water available at old zig zag railway if you need a refill.

Both crags tend to be out of the way of the trail bikers and 4wds circuits so pretty quiet.
Notime to climb
2-Feb-2015
8:42:33 PM
Yep alas I have suffered the bogans in the pines campground as well...

From memory there was another campsite off to the right on the road into the canyons? Cant actually remember. I will see if I can any notes I made from that trip?
widewetandslippery
3-Feb-2015
6:27:01 AM
Get a map and drive to the end of pretty much any road out there and you will find a good campsite.

rodw
3-Feb-2015
8:03:11 AM
+1
Damien Gildea
3-Feb-2015
11:22:44 AM
I climbed at Bung Crag a couple of weeks ago. There were trail bike tracks right down the track and around to the big cave.

The final 4WD track down to the end of the road was much rougher than when I was in there 6 months ago. Seems to have got washed out by recent rains and was rutted and rocky. X-Trail might be OK if you're careful.

rodw
3-Feb-2015
2:00:57 PM
True trail bikes do tackle the hill down to the Pagoda cave, but rarely...In all the time we have been there could count on one hand the time we have seen anyone.

If your camping at bung you would camp at the pagoda car park..its actually an easy walk to deisel through the bush to the other road from there...i agree the road is shit, Xtrail would make it....but diesel wall got called that because my Tiguan got a ruptured fuel tank heading in there once

deadbudgy
3-Feb-2015
4:01:05 PM
The pine forest camp ground is feral. I've camped out at Gallah Mountain a few times now. Its quite nice. Just near the car park for Sheep Dip/Rocky Creek. Doesn't see much bogan activity.
DaveN
3-Feb-2015
10:21:55 PM
If you like camping with turds nearby, toilet paper floating in the breeze and heaps of other rubbish - then Bungleboori Camping Ground in the pine forest is ideal. Oh - and you need to remember that there is no toilet anymore - it kept on being vandalised - e.g. winched over by 4WD's, so it was removed.

On the other hand - nice bush camping at Barcoo Swamp - which is just off the road to Galah Mtn - but that is a fair way out on the plateau.

And nice camping near Birds Rock - just off the road to Sahara Point. Camp about 100 from the turn off to Birds Rock.

Very nice camping about 100 m out along the track to the Dry Canyon - but again a fair way out along the road - and close to the tunnels.

The Bung Crag campsite is small and a bit rocky, and a with some rubbish nearby.

Dave
maxdacat
4-Feb-2015
8:55:51 AM
On 3/02/2015 DaveN wrote:
remember that there is no toilet
>anymore - it kept on being vandalised - e.g. winched over by 4WD's, so
>it was removed.

They certainly showed those nasty people trying to install useful services in our campsites!

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