Camping Spots NSW South Coast Or Blue Mountains

A good start for you is to get a book called something Weekend escapes close to Sydney by Boiling Billy publications It is about $25 I think and you should be able to pick it up at Rays, BCf etc
It has a lot of day and weekend trips you could do with useful ancillary information

The other thing to check out is the Wikicamps app for other spots around

That would be a pretty good starting point to work with

About ten km south of Narooma is a place called Mystery Bay. Water taps, cold showers, and basic toilets fires allowed. Basically on the beach. About $8.00 per night.

Newnes - Blue Mountains. 2WD access, creek, huge grassy campsites, free, fires ok. Explore shale-oil ruins and glow worm tunnel - good walks. Nat Park toilets, no other facilities. Bring own drinking water and firewood.

Glen Davis - same but no glow worm tunnel. Only a few km from Newnes as the crow flies, but about 60km by road. Go through/past the old town (still inhabited) to the Nat Pk campground about 2km east of the town.

Dunns Swamp. Wollemi Nat Pk. 2 WD access. Lake, canoeing, great walks, beautiful campgrounds, fires ok, $5/night camping plus $7 a day for the car unless you have a pass. NP toilets, no other facilities. Bring own drinking water and firewood. Popular and busy in holidays, quiet otherwise.

Coolendel. Private nature reserve west of Nowra. 2WD access via 11km of fairly rough dirt, but still 2WD. On Shoalhaven R. Large grassy campsites, or sandy spots by the water. Boil river water for drinking or bring your own. They sell firewood, $5 a bag I think. Kiosk, some basic supplies. Google Coolendel for rates - off peak about $16 pppn IIRC. Popular and busy in holidays, quiet otherwise.

There are a couple of nice grassy bush camp sites beside the dirt road into Coolendel, on the RHS as you go toward Coolendel, but no water and no facilities at all. Free

Hope this helps.

Depot Beach - around 12 kilometres north of Bateman's Bay.

Newnes or Bendeela are great. The campground near the swing bridge on the six foot track is accessible by all wheel drive if the creeks aren't swollen by rain. Wheeney creek is easy to get to.

Try Congo beachfront (about 10mins easr of moyura) good showers,toilets small but beautiful location.

and Lemontree about 3 klm south of lake tabourie .Beach front camping .

Also look at www.youcamp.com.au for camping on privately owned land in multiple locations.

Adam,

Only know of a couple of spots in Blue Mountains area. One is South of Glenbrook, at Euroka Clearing(though not really sure if camping is still allowed?) and at Megalong Creek, in Megalong Valley, just south of Blackheath. It used to get pretty crowded 50 years ago, so I doubt if anything has changed. :-)

Another good spot, though in Kanangra-Boyd national park, is at campground near Kanangra Walls. Magic bit of country, and seem to remember there are amenities at campground. When we used to camp there, you could still drive right to the viewing area, and we used to camp on the old dance floor, that used to be in the first cave, at the base of the Walls. A lot of history gone in the name of "saving it for the people".

Bob