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The Pines picnic area

Yarriabini National Park

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Family running along Little Bay beach, Arakoon National Park. Photo: David Finnegan/DPE

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Little Bay picnic area

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Smoky Cape picnic area

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Wilson River picnic area

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Gap Beach in Hat Head National Park. Photo credit: Barbara Webster © DPIE

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Gap Beach picnic area

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Never Never picnic area

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Bluff loop picnic area

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Bongil picnic area

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Cedar Park picnic area

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The Glade picnic area

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Nearby things to do

Walk

Crystal Shower Falls walk

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Trial Bay Gaol

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Paddle

Warrell Creek

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Visitors following the trail around the Look At Me Now headland. Photo: Rob Cleary

Walk

Solitary Islands coastal walk

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Swim

Front Beach

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Botanic walk

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Bridle trail

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Connors walking track

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Learn

Dorrigo Rainforest Centre

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Native plants with ocean and island in the distance. Photo: Stuart Poignard

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Green Island walking track

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Drive

Hastings Forest Way touring route

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Jack Perkins track, Hat Head National Park. Photo: Debby McGerty © OEH

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Jack Perkins walking track

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Kinchela Trig Lookout walk

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Korogoro walking track

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Little Bay to Gap Beach walking track

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Lyrebird Link track

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Monument Hill walking track

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New England Wilderness walk

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Palm Grove walk

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Powder Magazine walking track

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Learn

Smoky Cape Lighthouse

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Walk

Smoky Cape Range walking track

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Eat

Trial Bay Kiosk Restaurant

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Waterfall walk

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Way Way Creek Road, Yarriabini National Park. Photo: G Wallace/NSW Government

Drive

Way Way Creek Road drive

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Wonga walk

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View

Yarriabini lookout

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A young woman on a Via Travel Australia guided tour gazes out over a wide vista of bushland, river and waterfall at a lookout. Photo © Via Travel Australia

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14-day coastal tours from Sydney to Cairns

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Group of people with motorcycles on Port Macquarie seawall. Photo © Endeavour Motorcycle Tours

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2-day Port Macquarie motorcycle adventure

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A view through trees of a waterfall cascading into a pool. Photo: Graeme McGregor © ParkTours

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8-day NSW North Coast and Tablelands walking tour

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Children in the forest with an NPWS ranger guide, Dorrigo National Park. Photo: Louise Walpole © NPWS

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Dorrigo kids’ nature play: 5 to 12 years

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Ranger Matt crouching beside a log to show the fungi growing on it, Dorrigo National Park. Photo: Jane Grebert. © DPE

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Dorrigo rainforest Aboriginal cultural tour

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An NPWS ranger and a young woman and man look at the Gondwana circle map on the ground, Dorrigo National Park. Photo: 'And the trees’ Photography © NPWS

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Dorrigo rainforest ranger-guided tour

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View

Mermaid Pools

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Cycle

Muurlay Baamgala cycle trails

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Smoky Cape Lighthouse tour

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Surf

Surf and stay at Crescent Head

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Sunset above the Trial Bay Gaol walls, Arakoon National Park. Photo: Carolyn McPhee © DPIE

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Trial Bay Gaol twilight tour

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View through bars at Trial Bay Goal. Photo: Kim Payne Photography © DPE

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Trial Bay Gaol: Life behind bars kids tour

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Trial Bay Gaol with starscape. Photo: Kim Payne Photography © DPE

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Walk on the dark side: Sunset tour for adults

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Walk

Blackbutt walking track

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Casuarina Falls circuit

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Red Cedar Falls walking track

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Rosewood Creek walking track

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Walk

Satinbird stroll

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View

Skywalk lookout

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Walk

Slingsbys trail and Syndicate Ridge track

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Walk

Walk with the Birds boardwalk

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Drive

Waterfall Way scenic drive

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View

Bundageree Creek lookout

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4WD, Carrai National Park. Photo: Piers Thomas/NSW Government

Drive

Carrai and Coachwood trails

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An eastern spinebill on a grevillea flower. Photo © Andrew Turbill

Immersive stories

Dorrigo Rainforest birds revealed self-guided audio tour

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A man paddling a canoe along Pine Creek, with creek banks in distance. Photo: Jay Black © OEH

Paddle

Pine Creek paddle route

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Walk

Bluff loop walking track

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Fish

Bongil Beach

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Paddle

Bonville Creek

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Walk

Bundageree Rainforest walk

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Eat

Canopy Cafe

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View

Kosekai lookout

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A timber single-lane bridge across a river in Nymboi-Binderay National Park. Photo: Robert Cleary & copy; Robert Clearly

Drive

Moonpar Forest drive

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Nature Nomads clearing bitou bush, Arakoon National Park. Photo: Nick Cubbin

Volunteer

Arakoon bushcare

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View of Trial Bay Gaol, Arakoon National Park. Photo: David Finnegan

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Friends of Trial Bay Gaol

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Volunteer at Dorrigo Rainforest Centre

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Nearby camping and accommodation

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Trial Bay Gaol campground

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Hungry Gate campground

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Little Bay Cottage

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Smoky Cape campground

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Smoky Cape Lighthouse Keepers Cottage, Hat Head National Park. Photo: Michael van Ewijk/NSW Government

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Smoky Cape Lighthouse Keepers' Cottages

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Tuckers Rocks Cottage

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1st Bay campground

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2nd Bay campground

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Nearby parks

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Dorrigo National Park

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New England National Park

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Aerial view of Trial Bay. Photo: Rob Mulally/DPIE

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Arakoon National Park

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Bindarri National Park

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Bongil Bongil National Park

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Hat Head National Park

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Willi Willi National Park

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Yarriabini National Park

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Dunggir National Park

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Gaagal Wanggaan (South Beach) National Park

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Goolawah National Park

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Ngambaa Nature Reserve

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Baalijin Nature Reserve

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Bellinger River National Park

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Bollanolla Nature Reserve

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Boonanghi Nature Reserve

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Boonanghi State Conservation Area

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Bowraville Nature Reserve

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Clybucca Aboriginal Area

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Clybucca Historic Site

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Fishermans Bend Nature Reserve

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Gads Sugarloaf Nature Reserve

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Ganay Nature Reserve

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Gumbaynggirr National Park

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Gumbaynggirr State Conservation Area

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Jaaningga Nature Reserve

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Jagun Nature Reserve

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Juugawaarri Nature Reserve

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Kilprotay Flora Reserve

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Kumbatine National Park

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Kumbatine State Conservation Area

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Maria National Park

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Nambucca Aboriginal Area

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Nunguu Mirral Aboriginal Area

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Pee Dee Nature Reserve

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Skillion Nature Reserve

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Valla Nature Reserve

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Verges Creek Nature Reserve

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Willi Willi Caves Nature Reserve

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Yarrahapinni Wetlands National Park

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Yarravel Nature Reserve

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Yarri Barri Nature Reserve

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Yessabah Nature Reserve

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Whale watching top spots

NSW national parks have the best vantage points to see whales during their annual migration, which takes place from May to November. Plan your next coastal adventure.

A humpback whale breaches the water off the NSW coast, near Sydney. Photo credit: Wayne Reynolds &copy Wayne Reynolds

Park info

in Yarriabini National Park in the North Coast region
Yarriabini National Park is always open but may have to close at times due to poor weather or fire danger.

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