Camping in the Jindabyne area

We recently camped at Long Plain Hut, we were the only ones there :-)
There are more sites further along the road.

Try Ngarigo or Thredbo diggings which are both on the TVT bike track. $16/ car /day but it is likely to be crowded as biking is very popular. Jindabyne is pay as you go regular campgrounds and then you still have to enter the National Park but it does have tracks around the lake. Lots of remotish camping with maybe one or two others -see KNP website. Try Cooleman Caves. Many tracks now closed to vehicles but bikes are OK...................W

A bit further inland from Jindabyne but Tantangara dam (good fishing) is one option Jason. From there you can slip down the road to Yarrangobilly caves for either a guided or self-guided tour and have a swim in the thermal pool / splash pool (toilets, change rooms). Take a look at the NP owned homestead Currango if you're around Tantangara.

Another nice spot is 3 Mile Dam but there will almost certainly be a few others around. Plenty of room either side of the dam but the peninsula is the nicest imo. Doubt you'll catch much there though.

More remote is Lobs Hole/The Ravine with fishing available in the Yarrangobilly River (NSW fishing licence required).

There are numerous free camps off the Barry Way along the Snowy River. Ideal for camper trailer and self sufficiency

We used to stay at Jacobs river on the road which went from near Jindabyne through Suggan Buggan to Buchan in Vic.Might have been the Barry Way?? can't recall. Towed a Penguin camper there and there was some distance of dirt road.
Not sure what the fishing was like though, or that you would be camping by yourself as it was a campground with a long drop toilet.We used to put inflated air mattresses into the water and travel downstream through rapids and it was loads of fun, although that was in January. Would imagine weather in April and the water temp might be chilly.
There were other campgrounds further along the road and i guess if you could find somewhere off the road a bit, you may be able to tuck yourself in and camp by yourself.

cheers Heather

If you do go into the Kosiuszko Park, you can ride your bikes to the summit. It is an easy ride from Charlotte Pass up the road. You won't be the first to do it, but at least you can say that you did it. I think I can claim a first. In 1968??, I rode to the summit on 27 July. Even with global warming, I doubt that you would be able to do it now at that time of the year..

Island Bend is the best kept secret of the Australian Alpine Camping Areas - HUGE camp grounds, lotsa space between formal sites and even more space between informal sites, heaps to do there, has dunnies and is on the riverline and snowline...