Deua national park NEW RESTRICTIONS
Submitted: Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 at 18:55
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Nat parks have today advised that taking any trailer in or out of the western side (
braidwood side) is now illegal and fines will be issued.
Note trailers entering or leaving on eastern side is still permitted.
I did ask what was the reason for the ban and the officer said that trailers damage the drainage mounds that nat parks created,justifying the ban.(not the vehicles apparently)
They could not explain why the same trailers apparently do not damage the mounds on the other roads.
Also they say this is on their website,but it did not appear on the website on my phone, its different on a laptop.
You have to click on the red button "fires and closures " on their website to see the
trails affected.
All the best,
Reply By: Member - Mark (Tamworth NSW) - Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 at 20:28
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014 at 20:28
I'd say that some careless person had an accident towing.
I don't know anything about Deua NP, but I do know that a decade ago NP banned trailers going into two very step tracks into Oxley Wild Rivers NP. I asked a
ranger about it shortly afterwards and he said there was at least one nasty accident where a vehicle towing a heavy trailer got away on the owner and went seriously off the track.
I'd taken lighter camper trailers down into it until that stage, I used to have some interesting moments towing coming up around hair pin bends with erosion banks across them, but never any problem going down.
Have to make rules to protect people in light SUVs trying to emulate what someone in a serious 4WD does I guess.
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