Cabins, glamping tents and sites between Seven Mile Beach and Wallis Lake, with a white weatherboard cafe in the middle of it all.
The Lakes Way runs through the middle of the park. Which side you pick sets the tone of the week.
On the ocean side of the road the sites and cabins sit in the dunes, with a sandy track through the banksias to Seven Mile Beach. Surf at first light, back for breakfast, then the long walk south to the headland. The Beach House is at the top of the track.
Stay beachside
On the lake side the paperbarks and cabbage palms lean out over Wallis Lake. Flat, warm water for the paddleboards and the little ones, a shoreline for the fishing crew, and sunsets that turn the whole lake copper before the fire pits go on.
Stay lakeside
In the middle of it all, a palm-ringed pool with a timber bridge over the shallow end and deckchairs in the shade. Close enough to reception to send the kids over on their own, far enough from the sites to feel like a holiday inside the holiday.
Everything in the parkA white weatherboard verandah, bunting on a blue-sky day, glass floats in rope and beans from regional roasters. Breakfast from eight, lunch from eleven, cabinet and coffee till two.
Order from your phone and collect at the counter, or have it brought to your site or cabin. The docket tells you when it is ready, and it carries the wifi password.
Short clips from the verandah, the counter and the cabinet.
Cabins in the dunes, safari tents with real beds, the two big houses, and sites for everything from a two-man tent to a big rig.
Old-school holiday park bones, kept up properly.
An open-air chapel on the lake edge, dedicated in 1940 and still holding services, weddings and the odd quiet hour.
There is no roof. Rows of timber logs face a plain altar under the cabbage palms and paperbarks, and behind it the lake does the rest. It has been a place for weddings, christenings and Sunday services for more than eighty years, and it is open to anyone who wants to sit for a while.
Weddings and events on the lawn between the palms and the lake since 1979. Ceremony in the Green Cathedral, photos on the shore at golden hour, the reception under the pavilion roof with the whole park to stay in afterwards.
Enquire about a wedding or eventBooti Booti National Park on one side, the Pacific Palms beaches down the road, Forster across the lake.
At the door
About 6 min south
About 10 min south
15 min northTiona is Tahitian for Zion. The first camp here was seventy tents under the trees.
The first reunion camp: seventy tents pitched between the beach and the lake, and a tradition of coming back every summer.
The Green Cathedral is dedicated, an open-air chapel of log pews under the cabbage palms on the lake edge.
The Palms Pavilion opens on the lake lawn and the first weddings are held under its roof.
The Beach House Cafe takes orders from your phone: collect at the counter, or have it brought to your site.
On the sites, in the cabins, on the cafe verandah and along the dog-friendly stretches of the beach and the lake — no blackout dates, no school-holiday exceptions.
Puppychinos at the Beach HouseOn The Lakes Way at Pacific Palms, two and a half hours north of Newcastle, fifteen minutes south of Forster.
The Lakes Way runs straight through the park, with a crossing in the middle.