After staying a night at a roadside park on the outskirts of Wagga Wagga on our recent trip to NSW we headed up to Bethungra Dam. We had never been there but saw it mentioned in the Camps 7 book. It is about a half hour SW of Cootamundra.

We found the turnoff and was immediately on a very dusty dirt road which wound its way up past a quarry and on into the hills. The Camps book never mentioned anything about a dirt road as it usually does and we started to wonder if we were on the wrong track. However we decided to keep going the 5kms that the book said and sure enough we topped a hill and Bethungra Dam was in the valley before us. It was a beautiful sight and looked like the kind of place one could spend a few days just relaxing and that is exactly what we did. 

We ended up staying three nights. We filled in the days sitting back relaxing, doing afternoon walks, chatting with locals and other travellers and enjoying outdoor cooking.

The photos that follow will, I hope, give you an idea of why we liked this beautiful place.

(Click on photos to enlarge)

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As mentioned we did our cooking outside. We used our camp ovens a couple of times and did a nice lamb roast one night and another day we had a damper for afternoon smoko.

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The dam is a free camp and is a really beautiful place to spend a few days. Highly recommended!!!

Jeff

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Top quality photos thereJeff. A little ray of sunshine in the first pic.

Would love to spend some time camping there.

Feel free to post more pics. A real pleasure to the eye-balls.

Yep...agree....excellenty spot  ;D

Rufzgutz wrote on Oct 17^th, 2013 at 6:56pm:

Feel free to post more pics. A real pleasure to the eye-balls.

I have posted up photos in another thread of our next free camp Rufz. It was also a very nice spot. :)

Jeff

Nice Carron oven in use.

KD

Kingsthorpe David wrote on Oct 18^th, 2013 at 3:34pm:

Nice Carron oven in use.

It is an 11" but sadly the base was cracked when we got it. The crack got worse on the trip and it is no longer useable. :( We are going to get the base welded now just so we can use it at home. I don't think a spare base would be easy to come by.

Jeff

Nice place Jeff.

Any idea on maximum length of stay allowed???

Derek wrote on Oct 18^th, 2013 at 9:59pm:

Any idea on maximum length of stay allowed???

Unsure Derek. One couple had been there for a week and I don't recall seeing any time limit mentioned.

Jeff

That looks like a great place. Definitely the type of place we would prefer to go to. Thanks for the pics.

Allan

Glad you liked them Allan.

Jeff

Chally wrote on Oct 18^th, 2013 at 10:42pm:

Unsure Derek. One couple had been there for a week and I don't recall seeing any time limit mentioned.

Thanks for that