St George free camps by the river NO MORE

[Hodgies]

 Hi all,
Just did the recent run out to Nindigully and St George and went to pull up at free camps numbers 745 or 751 only to see massive no camping signs. Was wondering if anyone locally knows how and why this has occured, Such a shame they looked great overnighters too. Anyhows had a great trip and home safe.
D and S

[Bird]

2 things usually kill off these places.
1 - local caravan parks complaining
2 - people not camping but living at these locations...

[Tractor88]

People abusing the system and living there and now ruining it for the rest of us. Wow that's different isn't it? What should never happen is making the said abusers pay a penalty or fined for their total disregard for any other person in this country. That would just be totally unacceptable when the rest of us who do the right thing can pay for it as well by losing the free camp sites.
I really don't know why I'm so p#@%ed off.

[scubasteve]

3rd thing , leaving rubbish everywhere. Same thing happened at Thompson river @ Longreach , council got sick of cleaning up rubbish and banned camping on the river bank .

[Bird]

3rd thing , leaving rubbish everywhere.

forgot that

[lockyer]

free camps numbers 745 or 751 only to see massive no camping signs.

I just checked my CAW No 6 book and 745 is a Rest Area at Leyburn and 751 is also a Rest area at Stanthorpe and this one is no over night allow in the CAW book but the Leyburn is ??

Need to check the local council website I would think.

Cheers

[Hodgies]

Hi Lawrence yeh we were using CAW 7

 Will che ck councils website for curiosity but as everyone has mentioned above sadly we can see the reasons probably behind it. Shame though for the ones that do the right thing.

Just thought I would share that these sites have closed for other travellers.
Cheers D and S

[Sir Kev + Darkie]

You have actual locations instead of CAW numbers??

I have CAW5 and am assuming one of the ones you are talking about is Beardmore Dam, this free camping facility was maintained by Sunwater and not the Local Council. Sunwater pensioned off a lot of the workforce and have left the local maintenance to a limited workforce hence the closure of camping at Beardmore Dam, they have enough work to do rather than maintain the camp site and Council doesn't have the $$ to take it over.

The changes to Local Laws (forced changes by the State government) state wide about 18 months ago saw the closure of numerous free camps across the State as well.

Cheers Kev (an ex St George Local)

[Hodgies]

Thanks Kev for the local info, yes Beardmore was one of the locations.
Cheers D and  S

[Sir Kev + Darkie]

Thanks Kev for the local info, yes Beardmore was one of the locations.
Cheers D and  S

What was the other one??

i am interested now 

[Hodgies]

Hi Kev,
We have CAW 7 and camp no.745 was Beardmore and 751 was Jack Taylor Weir.
We ended up staying at 747 Kapunda Tourist and Fishing Park was only $22 for unpowered and was nice.
Cheers D and S

[Sir Kev + Darkie]

Jack Taylor Weir on the western side of the river downstream of the bridge has always been a no camping zone for the 1st 400m, after that it should still be a free camp (close to where the bend is.

There is still a heap of other good quality free camps in the St George area, you just need to ask the right people

[Stevemc]

Jack Taylor Weir on the western side of the river downstream of the bridge has always been a no camping zone for the 1st 400m, after that it should still be a free camp (close to where the bend is.

There is still a heap of other good quality free camps in the St George area, you just need to ask the right people

Hi Sir Kev,
The Balonne Shire has just overturned their decision on free-camping, all signs will be removed in the next few weeks, they never informed anyone of their original decision to close them & now have re-opened them. Apparently there was a couple of greenies on the council that pushed the notion thru on short numbers one afternoon & the rest they say is history. All this can be read on the Balonne shire website under council minutes in September.
Cheers Steve.

[Sir Kev + Darkie]

Hi Sir Kev,
The Balonne Shire has just overturned their decision on free-camping, all signs will be removed in the next few weeks, they never informed anyone of their original decision to close them & now have re-opened them. Apparently there was a couple of greenies on the council that pushed the notion thru on short numbers one afternoon & the rest they say is history. All this can be read on the Balonne shire website under council minutes in September.
Cheers Steve.

Thanks Steve,
I called them on Friday about some work I have been asked to do and got no end of a run around. Be good if they could actually answer my questions without telling me what I already know