Enjoy golf, wood-fired pizzas and animal friends at beautiful Barambah Bush Caravan & Camping Park

Keen to break the sameness cycle? Why not check out the magnificent Barambah Bush Caravan & Camping Park. Alison Huth caught up with Peter and Maureen Croxford who manage the park they co-own with their son Scott, while on assignment journeying through Queensland with the What’s Up Downunder crew.

“Peter and Maureen have been at the park since 2019, and their ‘training’ for running the park was spending four years full time on the road,” Alison explains. 

When the trio sought to invest, they all knew what they wanted: “Plenty of space, not a massive number of sites, somewhere for people to just come and relax.” 

You gotta be quick to spot such rare gems; Indeed, Maureen stumbled upon it online at 3am!

“It’s a massive park of around 200 acres, thankfully it’s not all developed, only about 60 acres is considered parkland. The rest is native bush for the amazing range of local wildlife that live here,” Alison reveals.

There are 40 powered sites, and 40 unpowered, with 3 cabins and the park supplies its own water with two huge water tanks and three dams. Two resident llamas roam a grassy patch, while parrots and kookaburras clock in at feeding time. Maureen has also hatched and raised a waddling of ducks who honk to come in at 3.30pm.

Barambah has a golf course, a mountain bike track, BBQ areas and a communal campfire. Fancy a pizza? There are two pizza ovens on site, which the Croxfords fired up in time for the WUDU crew’s first night stay: “It was a huge event with heaps of the park guests along for the evening,” Alison explains.

To mark new-found friendships, Team WUDU turned the tables, hosting a BBQ for owners the next night. It’s that same goodwill that sees patrons return year-in, year-out. “[They] just keep on coming back. It’s that sort of place,” says Alison. 

Peter, Maureen and Scott are keen to retain Barambah’s inherent serenity: “We don’t want to change things, we just want to improve what we have. There’s a BBQ we need to change, that’s underway. Things like that,” Peter explains. 

“We want to have a friendly park that people just want to come back to and chill,” he adds.

Indeed, Alison reckons beautiful Barambah perfectly hits the sweet spot: “It’s the kind of park that encourages you to talk to your neighbours, gives you peace and quiet and a couple of places to sit down with other caravanners and tell some tall tales and true.”