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Barrow Creek Roadhouse, NT
Budget Campsite

Barrow Creek Roadhouse, NT reopens for camping!

After a low-key two and a half years, the Barrow Creek Hotel has been able to revitalise and offer meals and a place to stay to the weary traveller between Alice Springs and Tennant Creek. This welcoming roadhouse charges a small fee for unpowered pet-friendly sites at the side of the pub with use of amenities, and a bit extra for power. For a real Aussie outback experience, stop in at the roadhouse, enjoy a meal and support this long-time local business. The pub itself is almost 90 years old, with the owner, Les, operating it for the last 34

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Tyla Elmer 30 September, 2022
Lauren, Sean, Izzy and Blair welcome campers and are looking forward to reopening the Toompine Hotel
Camping

Free camping is open: Toompine Hotel, Queensland

Lauren, Sean, Izzy and Blair welcome campers and are looking forward to reopening the Toompine Hotel Great news for Toompine Hotel, south of Quilpie, Queensland – camping is still open, renovations continue for the family friendly pub and a Christmas surprise! Update: Great news – the bar and cafe are now open – order a pub feed when you are there! We drove past Toompine last winter, south of Quilpie, and checked that the hotel was still closed. Publicans, Stu and Lauren Bond updated us today. Lauren said, “Unfortunately we are still restoring the hotel. Camping is always open. There

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Michelle Gilmore 8 July, 2022
Round Hill Hotel in Morven, New South Wales
Hotel Camping

NOW OPEN: Round Hill Hotel in Morven, New South Wales

Round Hill Hotel in Morven, NSW is now open again for camping with new owners who are really keen to welcome campers! Please add your photos to the Camps Australia Wide App or email them in.  They have gone from SCV (self contained vehicles) only with 48 hour stop to: 72 hour limit Toilet, shower and power for $10 and Unpowered sites are free! Have more space allocated now, now accepting tents, swags and big rigs. Meals are Wed-Sun, Raffles Wed and Friday, Sunday Roast lunch. Monthly Chinese all you can eat buffet. Sounds great! Find it in the CAMPS

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Michelle Gilmore 10 June, 2022
Sign at Sandy Creek Pub, Queensland
Hotel Camping

Is pub camping free?

Here’s the ‘how-to’ or ‘pub camping 101’… What do you think of this sign? At CAMPS AUSTRALIA WIDE, it is a given for us to support any business where we camp for free. Especially, if we want businesses like this hotel to continue to offer a free campsite. A camper recently told me that pub stays are NOT free stays, because you are compelled to buy a drink or meal for your patch of land. However, I am a bit of a glass-half-full kind of person. I reasoned that night, I was planning to eat out anyway – or socialise at

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Michelle Gilmore 25 May, 2022
Sandy Creek Pub, Queensland
Budget Campsite

FREEDOM CAMP OF THE MONTH – Sandy Creek Pub, Queensland

There were still a few campers around, and a couple of vans leaving when we dropped into Sandy Creek Pub, last week. You camp in the grassy paddock next door with some farm animals, and enter via a gate. The pub is not far from the Cunningham Highway, near Warwick in Queensland’s Darling Downs. We loved the sign here about patronising the hotel. The site is for patrons only, with a donation for charity and a fee for a shower. But it is great to find this freedom camp here, because the only other options in Warwick, are caravan parks.

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Michelle Gilmore 23 May, 2022
Curlewis Commercial Hotel
Camping

3 New Pubstays

You’ll find our first free Pubstay around 18 kms south of Gunnedah, NSW just off the Kamilaroi Highway.  The historic Curlewis Commercial Hotel is located on the corner of Goran and Railway Streets.  It offers a country welcome, relaxed atmosphere and a large grassed area for free overnight parking for campers including RVs, caravans and  camper trailers to pull up for the night. Grassed area at the Curlewis Hotel Campers tell us there’s hospitality plus at this Pub Stay.  The friendly owners offer 24 hour toilet access, meals seven nights, showers available, lunch Friday through Sunday with weekend raffles and

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Leisa Cooper 13 April, 2022
Eromanga Caravan Park QLD
Budget Campsite

Budget priced: camp at Eromanga Motel, Queensland

A pool, cafe, tourist information, motel rooms, dongas and camping. You’ll find the Eromanga Motel in the centre of town, opposite the only independently owned Oil Refinery in Australia. It is walking distance to the local Royal Hotel and Town History Walk. The very friendly team serves 3 meals a day, every day.  There are twin and single rooms with en suites, donga rooms, as well as powered and unpowered camping sites. It is pet friendly, with room for Big Rigs.  Other facilities in laundry, BBQ, picnic tables, mobile coverage and Wi-Fi. However, a huge bonus is the refreshing pool!  It was

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Michelle Gilmore 31 January, 2022
Thallon Silo
Camping

Queensland Routes: St George – Nindigully – Thallon – Dirranbandi – Bollon

Thallon Silo As we headed outback this winter, instead of forging due west from St George, we took a detour – full of gems! Murray the Cod St George We followed the Balonne River into town, stopping at the Beardmore Dam picnic area for lunch. There are four caravan parks in town – we chose the Pelican’s Rest Caravan Park just east of town on the Cararnvon Highway. St George Caravan Park is opposite the bridge and Major Mitchell Monument. You’ll also find Murray the Cod here. The Riverway really makes the most of the Balonne with walkways and picnic

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Michelle Gilmore 23 August, 2021

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