About half an hour west of Orbost on the mighty Snowy River is Woods Point Campground.
The drive in is very deceiving from just looking on the map – I wasn’t expect the last few KM to be so narrow steep & windy, but the road is well maintained but if you have to pass oncoming cars it may be an interesting time. Maybe a bit of a task for a bigger caravan but the smaller 4×4 caravans would be fine.
We came in on the way Google suggested – follow the Snowy River then continue – it gets steep and windy as soon as you leave the river, other campers suggested using the other road the google suggested – honestly I don’t think there is much difference.
Woods Point Campground is on the inside of a hairpin bend on the Snowy River with a beautiful sandy beach that spans for about 1km, plenty of space on the beach for everyone. Lots of people had kayaks & paddleboards and other floaty things. Its a great spot for it – not much river current.
There are lots of campsites – I’d guess over 20 sites, most with a fire pit & table
The whole campground is covered in amazing trees, which is brilliant for nice cool shade, unless you are trying to charge your batteries – everyone, be it fixed or portable solar panels, seemed to struggle. I wish I brought my solar blanket with me to charge on the beach – about the only place that there was good direct sunlight.
If you decide to venture for a drive onto the beach – be sure you know what you are doing else you will be entertainment for all the campsites.
Plenty of campers brought their dogs – some let them shit wherever they pleased which one time happened to be right in front of me, I saw plenty of it on the beach too. Please pick up your dogs shit.
There wasn’t much wildlife about the place besides a bloody big goanna that decided to check out our campsite then continued to check out everyone else’s.
There is absolutely zero phone service, I think you’d even struggle to maintain a decent Starlink connection with so much tree cover.
There are 4 long drop toilets that seem to be well maintained – they are fairly clean.
There are no rubbish bins – so make sure you take good garbage bags with you.
All up this is an amazing place – I’m guessing lots of people know about it because the place was bloody busy over the Easter weekend
Woods Point Campground in in State Forrest and from all I can figure is a free campground – The Yogi Bear rangers did make an appearance, they seemed to have fined our neighbours for having a fire unattended – so make sure you follow the rules.
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