Where

Goobang National Park in Country NSW

Distance

4km return

Time suggested

1hr 30min - 2hrs

Grade

Grade 4

What to
bring

Drinking water, hat, sunscreen

Please note

Remember to take your binoculars if you want to bird watch.

Burrabadine walking track is a 4km return walk in Goobang National Park, located near Greenbah campground. It’s a bush walk that is guaranteed to get your heart rate up, and the compelling scenic views from Burrabadine Peak at the end will definitely make it worth the effort.

The track is clearly marked and easy to follow, leading you to the peak through a diverse and eye-catching range of vegetation. In springtime, when the wildflowers are in full bloom, the views over the surrounding farming country are spectacular.

The walk takes you from Sawpit Gully fire trail, south of Greenbah campground to the top of Burrabadine Peak on the Herveys Range.

For directions, safety and practical information, see visitor info

Visitor info

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Aboriginal sites and storylines

Wiradjuri (Yuradjurray) people lived mostly on the flats east of Herveys Range escarpment and in the central and southern Curumbenya Range. A large range of sites including open camp sites, stone arrangements, quarry and axe grinding grooves can be seen throughout the park. Scarred trees exist near Wanda Wandong campground. Oral stories have been passed down through generations about the mythological importance of these lands, and many parts of the park have been used for Aboriginal ceremonies. Wanda Wandong Woodland walking track includes several informative signs that give insight into the local Aboriginal culture.

Birds aplenty

Birdwatchers will love Goobang. Many unique species can be seen here; parrots, including the eastern rosellas; little lorikeets; red-rumped parrots; and threatened glossy black cockatoos are all regulars. You may spot wedge-tailed eagles and brown falcons soaring overhead from some of the higher vantage points in the park. The heathlands and shrubs also support many small birds, such as wrens, thornbills, warblers, pardalotes, finches and robins.

Leaf lovers dream

Over 500 plant species have been recorded in the park, making the vegetation in Goobang National Park part of the largest remaining forest woodland complex in the central western slopes of NSW. The park contains an enormous diversity of vegetation types, including several communities and species which require a particular focus on conservation. Expect to see red ironbark, mugga ironbark, black cypress pine, red stringybark, Blakely's red gum, yellow box and grey box, shrubby sheaok, heaths, pink five-corners, wattles, mat rush, tea trees, grevilleas, hopbush, as well as a large diversity of native grasses, herbs and forbs that put on a colourful display in spring.