Poverty Creek Campground — Hotel in Greater Brisbane

We camped between Christmas and New years 2019. The campground is split into 2 sections. One is an open camping area without numbered sites suitable for camper trailers, and the other side has 14 numbered sites each with a car park which could accommodate 1-2 vehicles. We stayed on tent site #13 which seemed to have one of the larger spaces. The tent section despite being fully booked out was only around half full, where as the open camping area was very tightly packed. There were some huge groups that looked to be around 20+ people.

Facilities are average quality with 2 cold, salt water showers with little more than a dribble. There are only 3 toilets which are a "hybrid" system. They were reasonably clean but smelly. Unfortunately with such large numbers of people on site the toilets were often queued up for.

Access to the beach area is great and you're able to walk around on the sand to some smaller more secluded mangrove sections. Swimming is possible but only when the tide is high. There's about a 30mt walk to where the water drops off which is knee to waist height. Fishing looked to be successful for most people giving it a go.

Ocean beach is a nice day trip which took us around 40 minutes north through the inland sand track. Driving conditions are slow (speed limit is only 30 kph ?!?) and the sand can be really soft and heavy going through some sections. We didn't get stuck but if you happened to there would always be someone coming past soon enough to give you a hand.

The rangers turned up every day at around 9am which is nice to see. We've stayed in almost every national park campground in SEQ and they've never been this consistent. We saw people get asked to leave due to not having bookings or vehicle passes. Good to see the rules were being enforced and these guys don't mess around. So do the right thing and get your bookings in order.

Overall we were very happy with the site. The location is great but these days every bogan and his dog have a 4WD vehicle so it's not exactly a hidden gem. We'll be coming back but more likely to be in the lower season. Mozzies and Midgies galore around summer so expect to come home with few...

Some friends and I stayed at poverty creek for a couple of nights and obviously some teenage kids will be targeted and followed, but not only to find out that we simply just went for a walk to come back and our neighbour telling us that the Rangers went through all our tents and our belongings to clearly pin point something on us which i find completely invasive of our privacy it is unacceptable. This is a lovely place to stay but completely offensive we were also accused of disturbance with the cars which wasn’t us, also with the fire wood byo which we didn’t know at the start till a Ranger told us, had our wood from then and still was a problem. I understand that teenagers can be loud but we caused no harm nor were we doing anything wrong besides a couple cans on the ground that we were cleaning up anyways. I think this is very stereotypical as there were so many other people...

Not sure if it’s the time of year but the mosquitos, sand flies and other bugs at Poverty Creek are insane! Between 4 of us, for one night we finished a bottle and a half of mozzie spray, and are all covered head to toe in bites. I have never experienced anything like it in my life, biggest mosquitos i’ve ever seen too! We left first thing in the morning, cutting our 3 night stay into 1 night for this reason entirely.

There were also baby cane toads everywhere, this was also a wild sight, more than you could count.

Other than that, the location is gorgeous. We had so much space and privacy at our spot and our own fire pit, this was fantastic. Right by our site was a track down the the water which was gorgeous.

I’d consider coming back in winter but can’t see this happening. It’s been 3 days and I’m still...