Guy Fawkes River National Park

Halfway between Armidale, Grafton and Dorrigo, Guy Fawkes River National Park is a rugged wilderness paradise that’s perfect for peaceful camping and hiking away from the crowds.

The park is popular with experienced bushwalkers who want to explore the Guy Fawkes River Valley, but there are lots of great activities to enjoy among the peaceful gorges and slow-flowing rivers.

Enjoy a picnic among the spring wildflowers alongside Ebor Falls, where you can watch the river tumbling from the plateau in two dramatic waterfalls. Be sure to pack your binoculars if you’re a birdwatcher, as among the many species you might spot are wedge-tailed eagles and glossy black cockatoos.

From Chaelundi campground, Escarpment walk will take you to Chaelundi Falls, with its great lookout down over the valley. From here, you can see Lucifers Thumb, a large rock that offers all those who sit on it incredible 180-degree views out over the gorge and Guy Fawkes River.

The park is a significant conservation site with amazing biodiversity. There are 24 threatened animal species you might encounter here, including the brush-tailed rock-wallabies that can often be seen in the park’s rocky areas.

Native plants

Guy Fawkes River National Park is a rugged and remote wilderness area dominated by open woodland vegetation of yellow box, cabbage gum, Blakely s red gum and broad-leaved stringybark. Stands of dry rainforest, which have adapted to low rainfall, can be seen on the upper slopes and in protected gullies of the Guy Fawkes River valley.

Native animals

The park’s open woodlands and dry rainforests are the habitat for many species of mammals, reptiles and birds. Grey kangaroos, shaggy wallaroos, swamp and red-necked wallabies live in the park but are not frequently sighted. Colonies of brush-tailed rock wallabies inhabit the steep cliffs, and dingos are still found in this remote, unspoilt region. In many of the river pools the platypus may be seen, particularly in the early morning. Protected eastern freshwater cod and the rare New England tree frog are found here.

The most frequently seen and heard birds are kookaburras, magpies, treecreepers, brilliant flame robins, yellow robins, thornbills, rosellas, and lorikeets. Wedge-tailed eagles are often sighted drifting across the valleys. Less obvious species include golden whistlers, glossy black cockatoos, whipbirds and lyrebirds.

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View of Guy Fawkes River fom Lucifer’s Thumb

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