Gaining access to National parks? Easier to raise the Titanic?

4X4 Monthly is doing a story soon about track closures and the like. If you are aware of any places where access is being denied and / or services removed (or it is expected to happen soon) they seem keen to get the info.

It wouldn't hurt to give them a hand on this one.

Hey Fergus,
You will hate me for this but I have a key to all the Parks gates in NSW.
I wonder what I would get for it on ebay...LOL

I may be wrong in saying this, and I am willing to be corrected on this, but I seem to recall sometime back the Secretary of our club reading out in the Correspondence In, that the NSW NPWS has an arrangement (read payment required) with Tour Operators who apply, to give them keys to certain lockout areas thereby giving them exclusive access.

Might be worth checking out with Head Office of NPSW at Hurstville.

www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/ might give you a phone number.

Good luck.

Lucky you dont live in the Territory! The governments latest is they are going to hand the NATIONAL parks over to the Blackfellas, and yes they are serious!
The reason being, acording to the cheif minister, is it will save us money!
If we give the parks to them now we wont have to fight land claims in court!
F#*@&ng geniuses!!!

Pick the right tracks and you have access to most parks for free.

Raise the Titanic???
Well tomorrow, 13 April at 11am est will be the 94th aniversary of captian John Smith uttering those imortal words..."I am just going to get some ice"
Sorry can't help myself, I just wonder why my brain is full of such irrelevant trivia & I don't pay bills on time...

Be very weary if NPWS (DEC) do a plan of management (POM) for your favourite national park. It will go like this:

All trails off the main trails will be kept as management trails.

then in the fine print at the end:
All management trails will be accessible by authorised NPWS vehicles only (read big bloody gate and locked up for ever). There goes your favourite camping area / tracks.

It's not even about $$$ to maintain - it's about extreme green ideology coming out of hurstville and state labour governement - they don't want any human to even set foot in there - let alone drive in. Bob Carr was the icing on the cake - when he goes bush for a walk he just fly's in, in a chopper!

Take Barrington Tops national park - there is the Barrington Trail which is now a one way in one way out dead end!

And don't forget about lockout creep: state forests become national parks which in turn get poms submitted then lockout or they become part of larger wilderness areas which are TOTAL LOCKOUT.

For us NSW guys, we all know how the RTA screwed up the city traffic at the expence of the tax paying motorist, to appease the wants of the multi nationals, well mark my words, watch the bush police(NSWNP) do the same thing to appease the wants of the leftist greenie movement.