RVs, Caravans & Tents

RVs, Caravans & Tents Enjoy the beautiful climate all year round

The Fraser Coast, situated three hours’ drive north of Brisbane and within easy range of the inland mining communities of Central Queensland, is a mecca for caravanners and campers year-round with 23 tourist parks to choose from.

Its attractions are its mild temperatures, between 22 and 9 degrees in winter and 30 and 20 in summer, kilometres of unspoilt, safe beaches sheltered in the lee of Fraser Island and a hinterland rich in industrial and military history.

Hervey Bay

The centrepiece of the region is Hervey Bay, stretching across 38km of townships, hamlets and beachside coastal suburbs between Burrum Heads and Urangan. It remains one of the few places on Australia’s east coast where you can park a van right on the shoreline without roads or kerb and channelling to spoil the vista or stub your toe. If salt air is not your preference, Hervey Bay also boasts shady, lakeside or secluded river parks to either pitch a tent or park your RV or caravan.

Hervey Bay has a quality RSL and sports clubs, golf courses, fine restaurants, beachside cafés and 16km of paved beachside walking and cycle tracks. Fishing is a go-to recreation in sheltered waters with piers, rivers, lakes, beaches and guided offshore excursions all catered for.

Fraser Coast Beachfront Tourist Parks

Four absolute beachfront locations

If you’re looking for the ultimate in caravan and camping pleasure... you’ve come to the right place. Take a superb location, just 3.5 hours north of Brisbane and throw in the perfect blend of life’s little pleasures and you have an a ordable holiday hideaway that’s second-to-none.

Close to shops, restaurants and attractions

Powered/non-powered/drive thru sites

Ideal for swimming, fishing, boating and watersports

Fraser Island views

From $31 per night Pialba .........................................07 4128 1399 Scarness ................................07 4128 1274 Torquay ..................................07 4125 1578 Burrum Heads ..............07 4129 5138 Please note that all Parks are pet free.

HISTORICAL VILLAGE & MUSEUM

This multi award winning venue is a treasure trove of history. Join our volunteers on Sundays, make your own souvenir rope or help shell the corn using 100-year-old machinery. Open all QLD school holidays.

13 Zephyr St, Scarness | 07 4128 4804 webmaster@herveybaymuseum.com.au www.herveybaymuseum.com.au

PIER CARAVAN PARK

Location, Location, Location – Close to everything you’ll need for a magic Hervey Bay caravan/camping holiday experience by the iconic Urangan Pier. Facilities include pool, BBQ areas, camp kitchen and games room, easy access to beach and a number of pet friendly sites too. 11 Pier Street, Urangan, Hervey Bay 07 4125 4499 | info@piercaravanparkherveybay.com.au www.caravanparkherveybay.com.au

SUSAN RIVER HOMESTEAD – CAMPING

Situated a leisurely 3.5 hour drive north of Brisbane, in the heart of the Fraser Coast. We’re nestled amongst picturesque bushland and yet only 30 minutes’ drive to the beach, shops and cinemas. Powered and nonpowered sites for camping, caravans and RVs. Lot 56 Noble Road, Susan River 07 4121 6846 | info@susanriver.com www.susanriver.com

If adventure is what you are seeking, and you come equipped with a 4WD vehicle and a light-weight rig, Fraser Island, a short barge transit from River Heads, has no less than 28 camping areas to choose from. For those who want their independence and separation from the crowd, a wide variety of beach camping is available.

The tracks of Fraser vary by the season, from easy to extreme, and if you intend on pulling a van across the island you may have to negotiate long stretches of deep, loose sand where vehicles can easily become bogged. Make sure to carry a snatch strap and recovery gear. Once there, you will find all of the island’s camping spots have capacity limits. In peak periods it’s wise to book your space at least six weeks in advance.

Vehicle access and camping permits must be purchased online before travelling to the island with bookings made online via qpws.usedirect.com/qpws or in person at the Hervey Bay or Maryborough Visitor Information Centres.

Maryborough

More and more caravanners are discovering the richness of the Fraser Coast’s oldest city of Maryborough and its colourful colonial past, when its Mary River port was one of

the busiest immigration docks in the nation and the town, Queensland’s major industrial centre during the first decades after the State’s separation from New South Wales.

A mural trail now adorns 35 buildings in Maryborough’s CBD, telling the stories through art of the city’s great and quirky past and it also boasts a military and colonial museum with more than 10,000 artefacts which keeps visitors busy for hours.

Hinterland Towns

South of Maryborough, the hinterland towns of Tiaro on the Mary River and Bauple, which is the home of the macadamia, are also doing more to cater for caravanners with authentic bush pubs and museums of their own.

For a trip off the Bruce Highway, beyond Maryborough, the towns of Maaroom, Boonooroo, Tuan, Poona and Tinnanbar, accessed from the Maryborough-Cooloola forestry road, offer a different pace and easy access to the sand flats and tinny paradise of the southern Great Sandy Strait.

And to top it all off, the Fraser Coast has one of the best freshwater fisheries in Queensland with thousands of Australian bass, barramundi and golden and silver perch fingerlings released into Lake Lenthall two years ago. The dam bearing its name stretches for 9km on the headwaters of the Burrum River and there are camping, bathroom and recreational facilities on site, but pre-bookings are essential.

RV friendly

For RV travellers, Maryborough is an RV Friendly City with provision for low-cost overnight parking for self-contained vehicles and access to water and free dump points. Short-term free parking and low-cost sites are available at Maryborough’s Alan and June Brown Car Park near the CBD, Doon Villa Self-Contained RV Park, the Maryborough showgrounds off the Bruce Highway, Tiaro’s Memorial and Petrie parks and behind the Hervey Bay Visitor Information Centre at Urraween.

Excellent commercial and council caravan parks are dotted around the region, ranging from sites beside rivers and parklands to a number of prime beachfront positions on the Hervey Bay foreshore.

Access and permits

Many campsites are managed by Queensland Parks and Wildlife or Fraser Coast Regional Council. Preparation is essential and we recommend taking your time to research the requirements so you have an amazing and safe holiday.

Glamping and unique places to stay

DISCOVERY PARKS | Fraser Street, Hervey Bay Set on 8 acres of subtropical gardens, our park is a secluded oasis near the world’s largest sand island, Fraser Island. O ering a range of accommodation options including our new Safari Tents, our park will quickly become your favourite home away from home. With so many activities both in the park and out, kids and adults will be kept busy exploring from sunrise to sunset. Facilities include: new family safari tents l powered & unpowered sites l cabins l camp kitchen l BBQ area l swimming pool l games room and more… To find out more or make a booking visit our website.

20 Fraser St, Torquay, Hervey Bay 07 4124 9999 fraserstreet@discoveryparks.com.au www.discoveryholidayparks.com.au

Camping out under canvas has a certain romance for many couples and young families and assembling your kit, getting to your camping spot and setting up is part of the fun. That’s until the end of a weekend or short holiday getting back to nature and the time comes to pack up.

The kids are tired, stuff won’t go back into place as easily as it came out and there is usually more to do when you get home.

A new style of camping – called glamping – is fixing all that. Here, someone else does all the preparation, the glamping tents come with more than a touch of luxury and they are hired on a walk-in, walk-out basis.

With the increased popularity of “executive camping” it’s no accident that businesses in Hervey Bay and on Fraser Island have started cashing in on the trend, with new safari glamping tents now available for hire both in the centre of Hervey Bay and on the island’s eastern beach.

For a sense of escape with a strong connection to nature, these tents provide accommodation options with a difference and an ideal base to explore the region’s highlights.

Hervey Bay’s glamping tents come with a new standard of sophistication. Designed with families in mind, each tent comes with the comfort of a queen bed, bunks, comfortable living room, kitchenette, ensuite and a deck with barbecue facilities, all overlooking your own private piece of an onsite lake. The beach is a 200-metre stroll away, adjacent to Torquay’s café precinct.

Why camp out in a tent – even a luxury one – when there is plenty of good quality motel accommodation the length of the Hervey Bay esplanade? The answer lies in the freedom camping brings outside of the traditional “four walls”.

When your glamping tent is located within the gated security of a holiday park, with access to park facilities like swimming pools, bicycle rental, playground equipment and a kid’s club complete with jumping pillow, the opportunity presented is at a whole new level.

Fraser Island’s glamping safari tents offer a similar level of comfort on Fraser’s 75 Mile Beach – but here campers fall asleep to the sound of the ocean with real surf. Centrally located on the island not far from Eurong township, these eco-friendly options are equipped with ensuites, power sockets and comfortable beds and furniture. There are a range of options depending on your budget, from king size, queen tents and bunk tents, as well as the budget six bunk bed variety. A communal kitchen enables guests to self-cater and there is even a wood fire to make pizzas!

Retro caravans

And if our glamping options sound like a little too much canvas for your liking, a new business has just started up in the Bay offering retro style “glamper caravans” kitted out with colourful appliances and décor more attuned to the 60s and 70s.

You can hire these vans and even have them towed to the site of your choosing, so they are all set up prior to your arrival. The vans are equipped with queen size beds, linen, a fully equipped kitchen, USB ports as well as books, magazines and board games. Your responsibility is to bring yourself, your clothes, food and sense of fun!

If retro still does not light your fire and you want to imagine yourself living the life of a travelling gypsy, an RV park at River Heads has just that – a traditional gypsy caravan. Here there is space and the privacy to soak in an outside tub (an open claw foot bath), cook in a bush kitchen with gas cooktop, microwave, fridge-freezer and all kitchen utensils, then sit around the fire before clamouring into your own gypsy van.