All the National Parks and Wildlife Service offices listed under each entry have detailed leaflets describing walks, camping facilities and regulations, plus flora and fauna and visiting each Park will be all the more rewarding if you obtain this information from the nearest National Parks and Wildlife Service office beforehand. Oxley Wild Rivers National Park is located 35 kilometres east of Armidale on the Grafton Road. Access is also via Walcha on the Oxley Highway. Tia and Gara Falls are reached by short gravel roads. Picnic and barbecue facilities are available at all locations, and activities include rock climbing, gorge walks, canoeing and fishing, plus walks.
Wildlife includes the brush tailed rock wallaby.
New England National Park is located 80 kilometres east of Armidale on the Grafton Road, then via 15 kilometres of dirt to the Park entrance. Twenty-three thousand hectares are situated on the edge of the Tableland's eastern escarpment. Camping, barbecues, picnic facilities and bushwalking tracks, plus cabins, are available. The Visitor Centre is at Banksia Point. Lyrebird, New South Wales Cathedral Rocks National Park is noted for its fascinating granite formations.