Bulahdelah Mountain Forest Park, once mined for alunite, contains a scenic picnic area, old mine workings and walking trails along the old trolley lines.

The Grandis is the tallest tree in New South wales - 176 metre Flooded Gum. You can get to it via the Pacific Highway or from The lakes Way.

O'Sullivan's Gap Flora Reserve covers 320 hectares and includes a circular 20 minute walking trail, picnic and rest area, toilets and water.

Shorty's Camp Picnic Area was an early camp for road construction workers. Nearby Stony Knob Fire Tower offers panoramic views.

Wang Wauk Forest Drive is 38 kilometres long and winds through magnificent stands of flooded gums and other forest hardwoods.

Nerong State Forest covers 8,200 hectares and includes many roads and trails for exploration.

Ferny Creek Forest Park on the western bank of the Wallingat River, has a boat ramp, pier and picnic facilities.

Myall River State Forest is a mountainous 17,650 hectares with spectacular views, campsites, and mountains.

Horse lovers are able to follow mountain trails overlooking deep green valleys and rainforests with abundant flora and fauna. Perhaps enjoy a campout, yarning around the camp fire with a mug of billy tea before tucking in for a sleep under the stars.

You can also enjoy this magnificent terrain from the comfort of your car. There are many scenic drives with suggested stop offs for a barbeque or picnic, nature walks and vista points.

Gloucester Falls Walk is an easy one hour walk which takes you through a variety of vegetation types and offers some scenic views of the Gloucester River Valley. Sub-alpine vegetation is the main vegetation between Gloucester Falls carpark and the Andrew Laurie Lookout where the Snow Gums and Mountain Gums are gradually replaced by Brown Barrels and Messmates.

From the Andrew Laurie Lookout and Gloucester Falls Lookout the wet eucalypt forest dominates. Past the Fall's Lookout, along the river, the track follows the edge of a Beech forest where mosses and lichens grow on rocks and logs.

Antarctic Beech Forest Walk are in fact two walks - an easy 20 minute one and a moderate 90 minute one. The sheltered slopes, moist gullies and creeks along this walk are covered by Antarctic Beech forest (Cool Temperate Rainforest). Dominated by the Beech, the understorey consists mainly of Soft Tree Ferns and a ground cover of smaller ferns, mosses and lichens.

Wildlife abounds here - Brush Turkey's, the Eastern Whipbird, Bowerbirds, the Olive Whistler, Rufous Scrub Bird, Tiger Cat, Native Bush Rat, Marsupial Mice, Platypus, Swamp Wallabies, Bandicoots and Possums.

River Walk is an easy one hour which generally follows the Gloucester River. It takes you through the sub-alpine woodlands, where Snow Gums and Mountain Gums dominate, and wetlands where low growing reeds, sphagnum moss and other water plants thrive. The sub-alpine woodlands are home to Grey Kangaroos, Swamp Wallabies and Red-necked Wallabies. The birdlife includes Kookaburras and Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos. You may be lucky enough to see a small skink lizard basking in the sun on the rocks beside the trail.

Barrington Tops Forest Drives & Walks - The scenic drive across the Barrington Tops between Gloucester and Scone forms a direct link between the Upper Hunter and the coast. It's a popular road for tourists but is also used by logging trucks transporting hardwood logs.

Cobark Forest Park is 50 kilometres from Gloucester. There's a moderate grade 70 minute walking trail which leads from the Cobark Forest Park to shady negrohead beech rainforest. Trees along the trail and around the picnic site have been identified for the benefit of visitors. Toilets are located in the picnic area.

The Moppy Lookout is 54 kilometres from Gloucester and surveys the rugged eastern escarpment of the Barrington Tops Plateau and is a popular picnic site with a 30 minute moderate grade walking trail through scenic negrohead beech rainforest. Negrohead beech dominates rainforests in high rainfall and high altitude sites in northern New South Wales.

Honeysuckle, 56 kilometres from Gloucester, is a 20 minute walk classfied easy to moderate and takes you through Beech forest and hardwood with large banksias.

Polblue, 70 kilometres from Gloucester where the altitude exceeds 1400 metres, is a moderate walk which takes 70 minutes. It loops around Sphagnum Swamp and through Snow Gum and other hardwoods and quite often you can see brumbies grazing. The camping area has a community shelter and toilets.

The Firs Walk - Beginning from the Firs Picnic Area, 75 kilometres from Gloucester, the 20 minute walk is easy and leads through a trial planting of pine species which are exotic to Australia. Radiata Pine, Mexican Pine, Ponderosa Pine and Douglas Fir were planted here in the 1960s on a trial basis. Lyrebirds frequent this area and feed on insects in the pine needles litter.

Dingo Gate - This point marks the western boundary of the Stewarts Brook State Forest and the western edge of the Barrington Tops Plateau. The rugged escarpment into the Hunter Valley is most picturesque from the Moonan Lookout. A short 10 minute walk from the Dingo Gate leads along a fence and into an area of messmate that was logged in 1968. It's a good example of successful regeneration by the State Forest Commission. By the way, the Dingo Gate and fence is to keep wild dogs in the forest so they will not cause stock damage on adjoining properties.

Woko National Park (30 kilometres from Gloucester)covers an area of 4,500 hectares. It includes a wide variety of vegetation and spectacular features. Visitors can drive right to campsites on the edge of the Manning River which provides ample clean water. A short but steep walk away are soaring rock faces with many varieties of epiphydic plants. Three types of rainforest occur within a days walk as well as wet and dry scherophyll forest. This variety produces a wide range of bird species. There is also a variety of habitats particularly for the avifauna and mammals.

Facilities include Pit toilets, Fireplaces, Firewood, & Camping Area.
Activities include Camping, Swimming, & Bushwalking - the 30 minute Scrub Turkey Walk & the 2 hour Cliff Walk-over.