Mount Barney National Park — Attraction in Mount Barney

Barney. My dearest Barney. 3rd visit here and I’m always in awe. What a beautiful place.

Yellowpinch Carpark to East Summit up Sth East Ridge trail = 2 - 3 hours (return 5 hours)

East Summit to West Summit via Rum Jungle Camp (1.5 - 2 hours)

West Summit to Yellowpinch via Rum Jungle Camp and then Sth Ridge trail (3 hours).

If you don’t want to go too hard I would recommend just going up to the East summit and back down the way you came as West Summit is quite challenging and the Sth Ridge walk back to Yellowpinch carpark is rather uneventful. I also recommend a wikilok map as it’s easy to follow a false trail while ascending/descending which can lead you astray...

Mount Barney up from south east ridge and down from peasants ridge with 8.5h. It's pretty challenging track to be honest(mostly rock climbing up). You should be fit or at least done decent amount of hiking or rock climbing before you go there.

Essential things on this track are hiking boots hat, sunscreen and atleast 3l of water and recommended is not to start the track after 9am.

Amazing views all around in this national park but the views while going up are even better, worth 100%

Going up the trail was market ok, if you get lost you realize that fast so that's easy, going down luckily there was a lot of signs so it was easy also to...

Mount Barney National Park hosts a number of hikes and camping from a number of entry locations - some accessible only from 4wd tracks before you start the hike. You can camp with a permit and hike between the Upper and Lower Portals. Camp locations are marked and generally clear sites. You need to pack everything in and out. There are no facilities. Lovely part of the world. Can get cold during the colder months and shoulder months of...