Broadwater Campground - Sundown National Park - Sundown National Park QLD
On the Queensland/New South Wales border, Sundown National Park is a rugged wilderness park with spectacular steep-sided gorges, sharp ridges and peaks rising to more than 1000 metres.
The vegetation is mainly box-ironbark-cypress woodland with tea trees, river red gums and river oaks along the river, stringybark-yellow box forest in some high eastern areas and pockets of dry vine scrub in sheltered gorges.More than 150 species of birds have been recorded in the park, some seasonal visitors. Grey kangaroos are common. Red-necked wallabies and swamp wallabies and wallaroos also live in the park. The once common brush-tailed rock-wallaby now survives only in the northern end of the park.Sundown has a history of early selection, subdivision in the late 1800s, extensive clearing for grazing and fine wool production, and tin, copper and arsenic mining from the 1870s. Pastoral relics and old surface diggings remain. Sundown is a great place to get away from it all. Visitors must be fairly self-sufficient as few facilities are provided.
Camp at The Broadwater, a large waterhole on the Severn River. Individual grassy campsites, pit toilets, fireplaces, firewood, water and donkey boiler showers are provided. Remove all your rubbish except recyclable glass and cans. Secure your supplies and rubbish from goannas and currawongs. The closest supplies are at Glenlyon Dam. Four-wheel-drive campsites are located along the river at Burrows’ Waterhole and Reedy Waterhole. Burrows’ Waterhole has pit toilets. Reedy Waterhole has no facilities. You can also camp closer to the park entrance at Red Rock Gorge. A pit toilet and lookout are located here. You must bag and remove your rubbish from the park. Camping and walking are best between May and September when you can expect cold nights, frosty mornings and warm, clear days. Summer can be hot and humid.
Few Walking tracks are provided but you can explore along side gorges at Ooline and McAllister’s Creeks near The Broadwater and Blue Gorge downstream from Rats’ Castle. Check with park staff at The Broadwater and take a copy of the 1:50,000 park map when walking. carry water.
REGION: > QLD > Western > South Western > Sundown National Park
Trk E off Glenlyon Dam Rd
Sundown National Park QLD 4380
P: 13 13 04
GPS:-28.9190994,151.5770969
GPS:S28 55 08,E151 34 37
GPS:S28 55.146,E151 34.6258
