Cape Range National Park--- Help needed

Osprey is the only site "on" the water. It has some gen sites. Some camps are NO gens, booking is required (first in best dressed) at the entrance to the park. It is often completely booked out. Good walking along the coast/beaches.
Also, don't miss the 2 tracks that come up into the range from the east side.

Cheers,
Peter
OKA196 Motorhome

We stayed outside the park at Yardie Homestead CP and drove in each day to whatever we wanted to see - while the coast and the reef in the park are fabulous, the camps in there that we did see were sun-baked and windswept - we were glad of the facilities and shade at Yardie.

Hi Carl

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Cape Range Exmouth

Peter's information is far more up to date than mine. We stayed along the coastline many years ago when it was free camping and rough to access, with hardly anyone camping there.

Visit the Oyster Stacks day area and go for a paddle with goggles - like visiting the Great Barrier Reef right by the beach.

The visitor centre at the northern end of the park is also worth a visit.

Motherhen

When I was there the bitumen has been layed all the way to Yardie creek which is why the camps Nth of Yardie creek are packed

the 2 nat park campsites south of yardie were completley deserted

WE tried to get in to camp at Cape Range last year (late June). It was packed out and people were queuing at the park entrance from about 2 in the morning. So we went to Yardie Ck Station instead and explored the park from there. Most sites we saw were rather unattractive - windswept, little shade and everyone was crammed close together. I would not count on getting in there to camp, its definitely first in best dressed. The 2 drives into the park from the west are certainly worth doing, but dont know that you would want to pull a van up there.

Cheers,

Val

Hi Carl, agree with above and can add this from our visit in May. There are only just over 100 NP campsites when 500 are needed. At one site with 7 spots the camp host uses one of the spots and so it goes with the others so that 15 % of spots are taken up by the hosts!!!!. Yes sites are exposed to the wind and not pleasant. No loos. There is empty ground at the sites we saw - they could easily double or treble the capacity.
Visit the lighthouse lookout and go for a snorkel at Turquoise Beach. A few k's south of lighthouse and within view of it are some bush camping spots not in NP. Also walk to lookout after a spectacular drive up into the Ranges south of Exmouth. Water for free at info centre in town is a plus......W