Back road to Yerranderie and other Blue Mtns Tips?

"1. Is it possible (considering the low dam levels especially) to take the 'back' route to Yerranderie via The Oaks and the Dam? Am aware of locked gates adn NPWS numbers to call, but will I get a null response? Any special mentions I should give if I do call in order get a positive response?"

AFAIK , its only access by guided tour only.

Hill End & Sofala are good for fishing at the moment and there is some good 4WDriving there too.

click here

And here for road conditions

Baz.

The road you speak of is not open to the public apart from the onw and again NPWS guided tour
Vince

Haven't been there for years. My mother grew up in Yerranderie, my grandparents ran the Post office and Butcher shop.
Mum swears that some miner stashed away heaps and heaps of silver somewhere up The Peak and never came back to collect it after a trip into Camden.

There are heaps of trout in the Cox river.

Good luck.

hi how ya going? ive been to yerranderie about 12 months ago and went in through shooters hill [oberon ] . ive got a few mates who go pig hunting all through there and im lead to beleive that ya can only get through with a guide and its pretty expensive. can i also suggest if ya got time to take a trip on the zigzag railway or up the back of there is the glow worm tunnel nice walk to tunnel and the glow worms are something different to see. worth a look have fun.

i did the round trip, down to mittagong out through wombien caves, through lime burners , to yerranderie, back out to kanangra walls, and back home in the blue mts, just after easter, i found that the directions in my discover aust by 4wd drive book, to be spot on with distances and directions, easy 3 days drive, first night the caves second night yerranderie, cant wait to do the trip again and spend a bit more time at the caves.

Lazy :o)

know the area well. my grandfather had half his property(6000 acres Mountain Vale) resumed when warragamba dam was built in the fifties . this resulted in the old house and woolshed on the 2 mile stored water limit being bulldozed and a forced move several miles upriver.
Also necessitated the construction of 16 km of 4wd acces in from wollondilly post office on wombweyan caves road out of mittagong.
I spent my childhood and teenage years in the burragorang valley. what a place to grow up and learn to drive.
family sold up in early 80s when dads oldest brother died .
while private property Water board used to keep pretty close eye on things but over time control has passed to NPWS and unfortunately they have brought up a few of the blocks and have actively encouraged present landholders to discourage access by locking gates and erecting signs( ?legal standing) prohibiting access even tnhough there is gazetted public roads all the way to wollondilly river.
I know that the water board owned the land on the western side and although it is leased for rural purposes they have legally stopped access to /from yerrandrie from that side of the river.

i can only tecommend the yerrandrie trek notes from this site and discover Aust by 4wd wjhich i have found accurate as options are limited to the extent I have heard of pushbikers being charged wuth tresspass for entering from the Camden end via the coal mines.

Havent been back for 20 years years but i would love to take my teenage kids back.
The oldest (25yo) can remember us rescueing brumbies bogged in dry dams in the 82/83 drought.Still have the photos.
no power , no phones, 80 km as the crow flies from sydney yet 2hrs by 4wd/ 1000 miles from civilisation. we had trouble getting station hands,
bleepthey even get mobile phone reception these days.
some call that progress
regardss
howard