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Orange View picnic area and lookout

Mount Canobolas State Conservation Area

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Applies from Wed 4 Jun 2025, 8.44am to Fri 20 Jun 2025, 8.45am. Last reviewed: Wed 4 Jun 2025, 9.27am

Closed areas: Mt Canobolas SCA - Annual trail maintenance and closure Towac Way Management Trail.

Some areas of Mt Canobolas SCA (Towac Way) will be closed from Monday 16 June until Friday 20 Jun 2025.

Park management trail maintenance, involving heavy plant, and equipment operations, will be underway during this period to upgrade Towac Way and other connecting management trails with gravel.

As a result closed areas may include, but are not limited to the following areas:

  • The Walls picnic area
  • Towac Way
  • Federal Falls walking track
  • Hopetoun Falls walking track
  • Nature Loop walking track
  • Snowgum walking track

These closures will remain in place, unless they are otherwise extended or removed.

 

Penalties apply for non-compliance. For more information, please call the NPWS Bathurst area office on 02 6332 7640 or visit the NSW National Parks safety page for park safety guidelines.

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Applies from Sun 11 May 2025, 12.00am to Mon 10 Nov 2025, 11.59pm. Last reviewed: Sun 9 Mar 2025, 1.01pm

Other planned events: Notice of 1080 Baiting

NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) will be conducting a baiting program using Canid Pest Ejectors containing 1080 (sodium fluoroacetate) poison for the control of wild dogs and foxes.

The program is ongoing and will continue to be conducted between Sunday 11 May 2025 to Monday 10 November 2025 within Girralang Nature Reserve.

All baiting locations will be identifiable by signs.

Domestic pets are not permitted in NSW national parks and reserves. Pets and working dogs may be affected (1080 is lethal to cats and dogs).

Pets and working dogs must be restrained or muzzled in the vicinity and must not enter the baiting location. In the event of accidental poisoning seek immediate veterinary assistance.

For further information call NPWS the Central West Area Office at Bathurst on 02 6332 7640.

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For the latest updates on fires, closures and other alerts in this area, see https://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/things-to-do/picnic-areas/orange-view-picnic-area-and-lookout/local-alerts

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