Lowden Forest Park

Very nice area with nice picnic tables underneath the trees. The road is not very good marked and i suggest you use a GPS to assist you with the road. Once you are there you got a choice of a few hiking trails that you can done or a nice picnic with the family. There are also a few restrooms that are well contained. Enjoy your day out here.

Great for picnic or camping in the forest. Accessible by car.

Lowden Forest Park is located 1km south of Lowden Road in the Tallaganda State Forest, between Captain's Flat and Braidwood, NSW. For visitors approaching from Canberra, turn east off the Captain's Flat road onto Hoskinstown Road, which then becomes Rossi Road, which in turn becomes Lowden Road. The turnoff to Lowden Forest Park is well sign-posted (the second road to the right after Dead Cow Road). Lowden Forest Park has a picnic area and a free small campground. There are two pit toilets and a number of roofed picnic tables. Campfires are permitted as long as there are no fire bans in effect. There is no water available at the park, other than from Lowden Creek (if it is flowing). Two short (20 minute) loop trails depart from the picnic area. The Hopkins Pond trail goes upstream along Lowden Creek, while the Fern Gully Walking Trail goes downstream along Lowden Creek. At the campground there is an old steam engine and other remnants of logging in the 1930s. There is also a reconstructed water wheel, which was used to generate electricity for the logging camp. The water supply to the water wheel appears to no longer be functioning, despite there being plenty of water in Lowden Creek on the day of my visit (November 2017).

Beautiful forest camp, shame not more clearing has been done to let the sun through, would be much nicer in summer than winter

Amenities require maintenance at the campsite. Plenty of firewood, the better side to camp isn't signposted.

Beautiful

The park got hit by the Black Range Fires... The water wheel and the steam boliler survived, all the picnic tables are burnt to bits... Some campers there but found too depressing to want to stay there.

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