Our three-night stay at the Pioneer cottage was a lovely sojourn away from our city lives. The Porongups provide accessible and interesting bush walking as well as access to some really nice little wineries. Mike is as nice a host you would want and knows and loves the area. The cottage is in a primo location between Castle Rock and the national park entrance that provides access to the Nancy and Hayward peaks walk and Devils Slide. The Castle Rock granite ‘sky walk’ is a must and provides dramatic access to fabulous outlooks over the surrounding farm land and Southern Ocean. If you like your accommodation comfortable, rustic and self-contained do yourself a favour and book a stay at ‘Thorn’s Mountain Retreats’.