Manning Point, Farquhar Park

I can tell you a little about the area I have family living at Manning Point.The access is via the beach. I would recommend only accessible on low tide the sand does get a bit soft in patches. The beach is narrow in spots and no place to hide at high tide again in some spots. The camp spot I haven't been down to in years but believe it is still very basic no facilities their is not a lot of people know about it so doesn't get a lot of people staying their.
Their are two caravan parks at Manning Point the first one you come to heading into Manning Point has camping at the back of the park which backs onto the beach, the front of the park faces the Manning River not certain of costs. The second one also backs onto beach but no camping vans only. Manning Point has petrol at a price water and basic supplies at the small shop that sells petrol near the entrance where you go on to the beach.You need a permit to travel the beach which I believe you can buy at shop or council but would check first if shop still sells permits.
Regards
Garry

We are Manning Point regulars (stay at Weeroona CP since we have dogs) and often take a drive down to Farquhar Park.

As stated, you get there on the beach. The Manning Point shop sells the permits but you can probably get them in Old Bar as well as Taree. If the southern mouth of the Manning is closed (which it usually is) it is far easier to get to FP from the Old Bar side.

The facilities are your usual National Park basic with cleared sites and non flush toilets only. There would only be 10-15 site sin there and it does get full in peak periods.

The are is very nice though, you can swim in the river on one side or the beach on the other.

OBT