Falls Forest Retreat is a great rainforest conference center with group facilities for your meeting, workshop or retreat from Port Macquarie to Taree and the Camden Haven on Australia's North Coast of NSW. Falls Forest Retreat offers the best in rainforest retreat accommodation, combining farmstay, country retreat, and bed and breakfast B&B in our hotel style suite townhouse accommodation, ideal for groups!
Our rainforest sanctuary is perfect with conference facilities, one of the best conference centres on the Mid North Coast, with accommodation in our guesthouse style townhouses!  Enjoy birdwatching, bushwalking, hiking, tramping, and more in our coastal rainforests!
 

 

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Six Townhouses and a Conference Centre and Clubhouse, conveniently situated only five kilometres from the Pacific Highway in a Rainforest setting at Johns River between Taree and Port Macquarie on the North Coast of NSW

 Our Region

and TOURING on the MID NORTH COAST

FallsAndWatsonTaylorsLake.jpg (23298 bytes)The Three Brothers Mountains are major landscape features as you approach the beautiful Camden Haven region of the Mid North Coast. 

The towering communications mast on top of Middle Brother is visible from a great distance away. Falls Forest Retreat lies at the foot of Middle Brother at the end of Isaacs Lane, in its own private valley. 
Its forests along the eastern boundary merge with those of the National Park on the upper steep slopes of the mountain. The “Benaroon”, the largest living tree in NSW, is only a 20-minute drive away in the National Park.
 

From the lookout on the cliffs on Middle Brother above the Falls valley you can see the protected forests on the property, the cleared valley beyond, and South Brother.

Just MINUTES to the Coast from the Retreat!

Above:  Falls Retreat is only about 10km from the coast (as the crow flies) and welcome sea breezes keep it cool in summer. The picture above shows Diamond Head, top centre, and Watson Taylor’s Lake on the coastal plain behind Middle Brother, with Birdsfoot delta of the Camden Haven River into Watson Taylor’s Lake, seen from North Brother.  South Brother (on right above) marks the entrance to our valley system.

Below:  South Brother Mountain 
from the top of Yoorigan Falls
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A sealed road runs to the top of the mountain and the lookouts and picnic areas on the crest have wonderful views over Laurieton and along the coast, and to the Watson Taylor’s Lake on the other side. 
The Rainforest Loop Walk from the picnic area is a not-to-be-missed 500m stroll through rainforest with more delightful views. The Brothers are volcanic rock massifs, created about 200 million years ago when what is now Australia’s Mid North Coast region was near the South Pole and part of the Gondwana Supercontinent. 

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Touring on the Mid North Coast 

The Retreat is within easy driving distance of the coast with its beaches, headlands and coastal wildflower reserves and National Parks. 

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Inland, and also within easy reach are several major National Parks and many scenic drives through the cleared valleys and forested hills, with waterfalls, spectacular lookouts and their diverse vegetation and interesting rock formations . The Waitui Falls, Newby’s Caves and Lookout and Vincent’s Lookout are all worth a visit!
 
FallsRetreatDiamondHeadMap.jpg (57013 bytes)Crowdy Bay National Park offers half a dozen beautiful beaches between Diamond Head and Indian Head, with an excellent network of well-graded and maintained walking trails. Informative signage provides information on history of the region and some of its residents. These include the famous poet Kylie Tennant, whose book The Man on the Headland immortalises the 'hermit' of Diamond Head, while the 'hut' where she lived while writing is still there to visit.
 
Crowdy Head is a Whale-Watching locality, so bring your binoculars and enjoy bird watching as well and the wildlife and rich and diverse coastal flora. The Kattang Nature Reserve, adjacent to the coast north of Indian Head, offers more walking trails and delightful scenery. 
Nearby Kattang Nature ReserveThe Kattang Nature Reserve offers 1 to 3 kilometre round-trip trails through very scenic and varied forest, scrub, grass and heath zones. 
Several Banksia species, flannel flowers, everlasting daisies, parrot peas, wedding bush and Boronia make springtime walks a delight. Pockets of subtropical rainforest along the rocky Point Perpendicular Walk provide shady contrast to the vegetation on the coastal sand trails. 
Birds abound – more than 100 species are recorded from this Reserve, and sea eagles enjoy the updraughts above the cliffs. Short-nosed bandicoots, ringtail possums emerge at dusk, and wallabies are often visible during daytime.
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Falls Forest Retreat is a great rainforest conference center with group facilities for your meeting, workshop or retreat from Port Macquarie to Taree and the Camden Haven on Australia's North Coast of NSW. Falls Forest Retreat offers the best in rainforest retreat accommodation, combining farmstay, country retreat, and bed and breakfast B&B in our hotel style suite townhouse accommodation, ideal for groups!
Our rainforest sanctuary is perfect with conference facilities, one of the best conference centres on the Mid North Coast, with accommodation in our guesthouse style townhouses!  Enjoy birdwatching, bushwalking, hiking, tramping, and more in our coastal rainforests!
 

 

Home   Suites   Groups   Region   Location
Rates & Reservations   About Us
 
Six Townhouses and a Conference Centre and Clubhouse, conveniently situated only five kilometres from the Pacific Highway in a Rainforest setting at Johns River between Taree and Port Macquarie on the North Coast of NSW
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Our rainforest retreat is perfect for bushwalking, birdwatching and hiking, surrounded by National Parks and State Forests!

(02) 6556-5000

Fax (02) 6556-5200

Int'l +61 (2) 6556-5000

FallsRetreat.com.au 

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318 Isaac's Lane, John's River, NSW  2443

Please Note:  All photographs were taken locally on the Retreat Grounds and in the immediate region around the Retreat. 
 All photos copyright 2002-2006 Falls Forest Retreat

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Our Rainforest Retreat is in the Manning Valley in the Greater Taree City Council!

The Falls Retreat is next to the Port Macquarie region!

Our conference center and grounds are in the middle of 3 National Parks and Wildlife Service reserves!
 
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