Nature Reserve
Limpinwood Nature Reserve
Regulations on 30 October 2026
Signs at the site and later resolutions prevail; check the source.
These hold everywhere inside the boundary, whether or not a site is marked.
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Permit required
Climbing · All year
In force on 30 October 2026
3.2.7 Adventure Activities
Adventure activities include hang gliding, rock climbing and abseiling.
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Climbing & Abseiling
- - Abseiling is permitted at the site off Rockface Road in Mt Jerusalem NP subject to the site management requirements identified below.
- - Rock climbing and abseiling are permitted at other sites subject to NPWS consent and providing existing low use levels, environmental integrity and visitor safety are maintained.
Published by NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service · Plan of Management – Parks & Reserves of the Tweed Caldera
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Permit required
Camping & bivouac · All year
In force on 30 October 2026
Remote Camping
- - Continue to coordinate with the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS) regarding the management of remote camping along the McPherson Range in Border Ranges NP, Limpinwood NR and the adjoining Lamington NP in Queensland. This should include the following provisions:
- - continue to allow remote camping at existing designated sites at Point Lookout, Echo Point and Bithongabel subject to the QPWS permit system. These sites will be complemented by remote camping zones designated by QPWS within the adjoining Lamington NP (at the time of writing being Stinson, Rat-a-tat and Tuckeroo remote camping sites);
Published by NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service · Plan of Management – Parks & Reserves of the Tweed Caldera
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Prohibited during a period
Camping & bivouac · 1 Dec to 31 Jan
Not in force on 30 October 2026
Remote Camping
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- - close Limpinwood NR to remote camping during December and January each year to compliment the seasonal closure applied by QPWS for the adjoining Lamington NP to “rest” designated remote camping sites.
Published by NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service · Plan of Management – Parks & Reserves of the Tweed Caldera
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Permit required
Canyoning and paragliding · All year
In force on 30 October 2026
25 Sporting, recreational and other activities
(1) A person must not in a park—
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(d) organise or engage in any activity or recreational pursuit that involves risking the safety of the person or the safety of other persons or damaging the environment.
Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.
(2) Without limiting the generality of subclause (1)(d), the activities and recreational pursuits to which that paragraph applies include abseiling, base jumping, bungy jumping, rock climbing, parachuting, canyoning, white water boating, paragliding, parasailing and hang gliding. However, the activities and recreational pursuits to which subclause (1)(d) applies do not include caving and cave diving.
(3) A person does not commit an offence under this clause—
(a) for anything done or omitted to be done with the consent of a park authority and in accordance with any conditions to which the consent is subject, or
(b) if a plan of management for a park makes provision for the undertaking of an activity in the park, the person undertakes the activity in the park in accordance with the plan of management.
(4) Despite subclause (3)(b), a person must not undertake an activity in a park if a notice erected in the park or given to the person prohibits the undertaking of the activity.
Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.
Published by NSW Government, 4 Jul 2025 · National Parks and Wildlife Regulation 2019