Set up camp at the Moliagul Campground and spend a weekend exploring the area's fascinating natural and historical treasures!
Free camping at the Moliagul Campground
Camping is free at the Moliagul Campground, no bookings are required.
The campground is set in a fork in the road, and features an undercover barbecue area, picnic tables, water tank, toilets and rubbish bins.
There is plenty of space to pitch tents and park caravans.
Things to do nearby
Alongside the campground, a sign points in the direction of the
Welcome Stranger Discovery Site, which features a monument, picnic/camping area and discovery walk.
Mount Moliagul is a short drive from here and offers sweeping views over the surrounding fields and bushland. A scenic stroll along the rocky mountain slopes offers many great vantage points and plenty of stunning scenery.
Be sure to head over to nearby Brenanah to explore the stunning
Melville Caves - reputedly used by notorious bushranger
Captain Melville as a hideout during the 19th century.
JOHN FLYNN MEMORIAL
The Moliagul Campground features an interesting
memorial to John Flynn, founder of the Australian Inland Mission and the Flying Doctor Service.
An information sign at the campground displays the following text:
The
Moliagul school was built in 1871 with Thomas Flynn as principal. His son John Flynn went on to University High School and became a minister in the Presbyterian Church. Sent to outback missions, Flynn opened a string of nursing hostels serving all in the isolated bush; aboriginal families alongside whites.
In 1928 he set up the Flying Doctor Service. The boy who left Moliagul as a three-year-old had used radio and planes to bring medicine to the most remote corners of the continent.
The remnants of gold-era Moliagul are scattered around the Flynn Memorial: McCoy's General Store, Mt Moliagul Hotel and St Michael's and All Angels Anglican Church, a simple English Gothic building opened in March 1865.
Gold prospecting around Moliagul
BBQ
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