Kandanga Creek home to be turned into campgrounds

A new campground less than two hours from Brisbane is the ninth development of its kind to be mooted in the same region in the past year.

The owners of a 90ha block at Kandanga Creek, near the home of the Mitchell Creek Rock n Blues Festival, have asked Gympie Regional Council for permission to turn the land into a campground capbale of hosting up to 44 guests.

The Gympie region’s foothold in the Qld tourism market continues to grow with new plans unveiled to open a new campground in the Mary Valley not far from the site of the Mitchell Creek Rock n Blues Festival.

Landowners Garry and Natalie Wheeler have asked for Gympie Regional Council permission to transform part of their 90ha Kandanga Creek Rd property into a tourist park capable of hosting 11 campsites.

The land is located 23km southwest of Gympie city, and within 200m of the site which regularly hosts the Mitchell Creek Rock n Blues Festival.

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Guests will be required to bring their own equipment and portable amenities and will be responsible for disposing of their own waste with a “leave no trace” policy.

Campsites will be capped at four people each, with no more than 44 people allowed to stay at the grounds at any one time.

The proposed location of the campground is 23km southwest of Gympie city, and within 200m of the site which regularly hosts the Mitchell Creek Rock n Blues Festival.

Access to the park will be from Pitt Rd.

A refuge shelter will be located away from the creek in the event of it breaking its banks and flooding in severe weather.

It is the ninth application for a tourist park lodged with Gympie Regional Council in the past 12 months, and the 11th since the start of 2021.

The largest of these was a 360-site park at Amamoor, which is still awaiting a decision by the council.

Two more campgrounds have been proposed for Gunalda, one with 37 sites and the other with 25, while other applications for parks with no more than a dozen campsites have been made at Monkland, Traveston, Carters Ridge, Widgee and Goomboorian.

If each application is approved by the council then more than 460 new campsites will be available for visitors to the region.