Tapin Tops National Park

Tapin Tops National Park (Template:Langx or Template:Lang)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> is a Template:Convert national park that is located in the Mid North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia.

Location and features

The Tapin Tops National Park is situated approximately Template:Convert northeast of Sydney, with the closest town being Template:NSWcity. Access to the park from Wingham is reached via Elands Road, Wherrol Flat Road, Dingo Tops Road and Knodingbul Road,<ref name=kevins>Template:Cite web</ref> generally unsealed roads accessible via 2WD vehicles. The park is bounded by the Bulga, Knorrit, and Dingo state forests to the north, south, and southwest respectively, and by Killabakh nature reserve to the east.<ref name=bonzle>Template:Cite web</ref>

Within the park are a number of threatened species including the common and little bent-wing bat and greater broad-nosed bat, the spotted-tailed quoll, the koala, the Parma wallaby, the red-legged pademelon, the glossy black cockatoo, the wompoo fruit dove, and the powerful owl.<ref name=kevins/> Threats to these species habitat led to a blockade of logging in the Dingo and Bulgar Forests in 1993, sections of which were added to the park.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Scenic lookouts such as Rowley's Peak provide panoramic views via a platform with a 360–degree view, across Template:NSWcity and the Tasman Sea to the east, the catchment area of Caparra Creek to the southeast, and the extensive forested hinterland toward Template:NSWcity in the west. The platform has an estimated elevation of Template:Convert Template:AHD.<ref name=rowleys>Template:Cite web</ref>

Mountain Brush circuit is a 15-minute walk through a rainforest which contain red cedar and coachwood, brush box, soft corkwood and the yellow carabeen.<ref name=tapin>Template:Cite web</ref>

Camping is permitted in the Dingo Tops campground.<ref name=dingo>Template:Cite web</ref> A walking track from Potoroo Falls picnic area can be accessed alongside the Little Run Creek to view Potoroo Falls, approximately Template:Convert upstream. Several swimming holes are also located in the area.<ref name=dingo/><ref name=potoroo>Template:Cite web</ref>

Parts of the Rowleys and Nowendoc rivers and the Dingo and Bobin creeks lie within the Tapin Tops National Park.<ref name=kevins/>

Etymology

The traditional custodians of the land now containing the Tapin Tops National Park are the Australian Aboriginal Birpai people<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> of the Bundjalung nation. Tapin is the Aboriginal Kattang word meaning dingo,<ref name=kevins/> a subspecies of the grey wolf.

See also

• Protected areas of New South Wales

References

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