Walking in North Eastern NSW

[creeping_moses]

G'day,

Soon I am heading up near Lismore for a few weeks and would like to get in a walk or two while there. I am close to the Nightcap NP so would like to know what the best day trips to d there are and if there are any good overnighters.
I'll have a small 2WD car.

Is there a good book for walks in this region?

Cheers

[maddog]

A book covering local walks is 'Bushwalking in the Rainbow Region' by Michael Smith:

http://nimbinbushwalkers.150m.com/rainbowbushwalks.htm

Walk 4 - Murray Scrub and Walk 5 - Eden Creek are also worth a look.

Cheers

[creeping_moses]

Thanks!

[kjbeath]

The take a Walk book on Port Macquarie to Brisbane is quite good and has several walks in Nightcap. Mt Warning is great for a few hours walking. I would also be looking at Washpool, Gilbraltar Ranges and Lamington NP. All very worthwhile and definitely not too far for a weekend.

[awildland]

I would highly recommend Minyon Falls walk. It is just outside Nimbin and is in Nightcap National Park. It has a great walk down to the base of the falls and back up the other side. The falls probably won't have much water flowing but they are a big drop (approx 50m) and the walk is about 7km long so a nice half dayer, beautiful rainforest down the bottom (we caught (and released) a beautiful blue rainforest crayfish).

Also search this forum site for "Sphinx Rock" - it is a distinct rock outcrop outside Nimbin but takes some walking, it's unmarked track and a bit overgrown I think as of last reports.

And there's the Nightcap track which is 16km long and follows the old postal horse route. I think that's a one way track.

See http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/natio ... x?id=N0062 for all the walks in the park.