Bunya Mountains National Park Southern Queensland Country

Pitch your tent in the large, grassy and open Burtons Wells camping area. Photo credit: Robert Ashdown © Queensland Government

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Burtons Well camping area

Pitch your tent near giant grasstrees and stately stringybarks on a sheltered, grassy slope with scenic views to the north-east.

Accessible by

  • Conventional vehicle
  • Bicycle

Camping area facilities

  • Wood-fired barbecue (BYO wood)
  • Picnic tables
  • Toilets (flush)
  • Tent camping
  • Shower cubicle (BYO shower)
  • Short walk to tent
  • Walking
  • Cultural and historic sites

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Relax in this spacious camping area nestled among a forest of stringybark trees and ancient grasstrees. Enjoy spectacular sunrises, and at night tread quietly with your spotlight and you might be lucky to see koalas, greater gliders, squirrel gliders, sugar gliders and other possums foraging in the tree tops. Listen for bandicoots fossicking in the leaf litter.

Choose from to two popular walking tracks—Mount Kiangarow track and Cherry Plain to Burtons Well track. You’re sure to make good use of your camera and binoculars! Listen for the familiar whip-crack call of eastern whipbirds in dense forest nearby and watch for wedge-tailed eagles soaring gracefully overhead.

Getting there and getting around

The Burtons Well camping area is in the Bunya Mountains National Park, 200km north-west of Brisbane and 125km north-west of Toowoomba in the South Burnett region.

  • The camping area is 8.5km along Bunya Mountains Road from the Dandabah area, and approximately 4km from the northern park entrance, at the top of the steep descent to Kingaroy.

Three steep, narrow and winding routes, signposted as the Great Bunya Drive, lead to the park. The Bunya Mountains Road passes through the park from the south-east to the north.

For more details on how to get to Bunya Mountains National Park, please see getting there and getting around.

Before you visit

Opening hours

Burtons Well camping area is open 24 hours a day. Check in to your camp after 2pm and check out by 11am on the day of departure.

Check park alerts for the latest information on access, closures and conditions.

Large grass trees are a feature of Burtons Well camping area - a quiet spot to picnic or to pitch a tent.

Photo credit: Robert Ashdown

Campground features: A large, well-grassed open area surrounded by forest. There are a number of ancient grasstrees scattered through the camping area.

Location: About 8.5km north-west of the QPWS information centre.

Access: The camping area can be reached by conventional vehicle. It is not accessible for trailers, caravans or buses. Although the campground is accessible by car, it is not possible to drive onto the camp sites. Parking is available only a short distance from each camp site.

Number of sites: Open area without separately defined sites for up to 50 people.

Camp sites are suitable for: Walk-in camping only; cars must remain in carparks nearby.

Camp site surface: Grass.

Facilities: Water (treat before drinking), toilet (hybrid system), picnic tables, wood barbecues and shower cubicles (BYO shower and water).

Open fires: In supplied fireplaces only, except when fire bans or prohibitions apply. Ground fires are not permitted. Please bring your own clean milled timber, free from pests or disease to use as firewood. Timber cannot be collected from anywhere within the national park. Make sure your fire is out before you leave it—extinguish with water, not sand or dirt. Fuel or gas stoves are recommended.

Generators: Not permitted.

Essentials to bring: Rubbish bags (no bins are provided) and insect repellent. Fuel or gas stoves are recommended. Read more about before you visit.

Bookings: Book online or learn about our camping booking options.

Mobile phone coverage: Poor.

Accessibility

There is step-free access from the bitumen carpark to the concrete pathways suitable for wheelchairs and wheeled mobility devices.There is no designated parking area for persons with a disability.

Picnic tables are located on both grass and concrete surfaces and have fixed seating on two sides. The picnic table on the concrete surface has one extended end suitable for visitors seated in wheelchairs, with 780mm clearance from the ground to the underside of the table. A firepit with raised-height heat-resistant upper surface is located adjacent to this table.

Other picnic tables and firepits are located on grassy terrain without formed paths, on both flat and sloped surfaces.

Access from the carpark to the toilet and shower facilities is via a slightly inclined concrete pathway, transitioning to pavers. There is a small 10mm lip between the pathway and timber decking surrounding the toilet facilities.

Toilet facilities include a large unisex toilet with outwards-opening doorway 830mm wide with grabrails and a raised toilet seat height of 440mm.

Taps for handwashing are located off the pathway on a grassed surface, surrounded by a small pile of rocks.

Shower cubicles have step-free entry with outwards-opening doorways 830mm wide. Visitors are required to BYO shower bag and water.

Upcoming camping area availability

Visiting safely

For more safety information see Visiting Bunya Mountains safely and camp with care.