Green Gully Track

The New England Tableland’s eastern edge falls suddenly and unexpectedly into deep chasms and dramatic river valleys.

Here, in wild north-eastern New South Wales, gently undulating agricultural highland scenery transforms rapidly into a rugged landscape of sheer cliffs, rocky outcrops and fern-lined gullies. From lookouts, it appears as if acid has been poured onto the plateau’s edge, dissolving it into untamed, seemingly untouched, wilderness.

World Heritage-listed Oxley Wild Rivers National Park, about 445km drive north of Sydney and 100km by car south of Armidale, takes in roughly 1600sq.km of this terrain. Home to the huge Apsley-Macleay gorges system, the park features steep escarpments that plummet spectacularly into deep river valleys flowing with ginclear streams and waterfalls that thunder after rain.

Oxley Wild Rivers NP forms part of the traditional lands of the Thunghutti, and Aboriginal people have roamed here for millennia. Explorer John Oxley became the first European to visit the region when he and his party reached the Apsley River in 1818. Soon after, cedar-getters penetrated