Just six kilometres from Lismore on the Bangalow Road, Boatharbour is well placed to provide for day visitors. Picnic facilities, easy access and a pleasant relaxing environment are sure to make your visit both worthwhile and educational. There are few places in New South Wales where the rainforest truly meets the sea. Walking tracks offer sweeping vistas and provide access to secluded beaches with their backdrop of windsheared rainforest. Tracks leave from along side the Broken Head Caravan Park and at other localities along Seven Mile Beach Road.
Camping is permitted only in the council managed caravan park.
To get there, follow the signs for the caravan park along the Coast Road. There is little to beat it on a hot summers day or if you are looking to escape the hectic pace of life in a busy coastal town. Located just off the Pacific Highway on the northern side of the Brunswick river, it is the ideal location for a picnic, swimming, or simply cooling your heels and dangling a line. Here is found a dramatic mix of vegetation types including littoral and subtropical rainforest, dry and wet sclerophyll forests, swamp forest, heathlands, woodlands, grasslands and mangroves. At 464 hectares including the whole of Cudgen Lake, the reserve offers picnicking, bushwalking and nature study in a truly unique range of habitats.