Yelgun rest area NSW

Survey PointYelgun Rest Area NSW
Latitude-28.4916700 (28° 29′ 30″ S)
Longitude153.5216700 (153° 31′ 18″ E)

Just off the Pacific Motorway south of Tweed Heads and NE of Mullimbimby and also accessible off the Brunswick Valley Way, this is a popular spot to stay the night, it’s very noisy and not very inspiring, but there is a bit of bushland here being on the edge of Billinudgel Nature Reserve.

Camp rating 3 there are good facilities here but it’s too busy and too close to the freeway. There is no pitching of tents here. 

Surveys done 2

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Mallee Cliffs NP, Byron Bay, Plenty Hwy, Great Central Road 2025

  • Brown-capped Emerald-Dove Chalcophaps longirostris 1 (50.00%)
  • Fan-tailed Cuckoo Cacomantis flabelliformis 1 (50.00%)
  • White-faced Heron Egretta novaehollandiae 1 (50.00%)
  • Australian White Ibis Threskiornis moluccus 2 (100.00%)
  • Laughing Kookaburra Dacelo novaeguineae 1 (50.00%)
  • Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Cacatua galerita 1 (50.00%)
  • Noisy Pitta Pitta versicolor 1 (50.00%)
  • Superb Fairy-wren Malurus cyaneus 1 (50.00%)
  • Noisy Friarbird Philemon corniculatus 1 (50.00%)
  • Blue-faced Honeyeater Entomyzon cyanotis 2 (100.00%)
  • Lewin’s Honeyeater Meliphaga lewinii 1 (50.00%)
  • Noisy Miner Manorina melanocephala 1 (50.00%)
  • Striated Pardalote Pardalotus striatus 1 (50.00%)
  • Brown Thornbill Acanthiza pusilla 1 (50.00%)
  • Australasian Figbird Sphecotheres vieilloti 1 (50.00%)
  • Pied Currawong Strepera graculina 1 (50.00%)
  • Australian Magpie Gymnorhina tibicen 1 (50.00%)
  • Pied Butcherbird Cracticus nigrogularis 1 (50.00%)
  • Grey Fantail Rhipidura albiscapa 1 (50.00%)
  • Torresian Crow Corvus orru 2 (100.00%)
  • Leaden Flycatcher Myiagra rubecula 1 (50.00%)
  • Magpie-lark Grallina cyanoleuca 1 (50.00%)