Hat Head National Park

Hat Head National Park is a coastal national park on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, east of Kempsey and surrounding the village of Hat Head. It protects extensive sand dunes, wetlands, heathlands, rainforest pockets and long beaches including Gap Beach and Smoky Beach. Notable for its diverse birdlife, Korogoro Point headland and Aboriginal cultural heritage, the park offers camping, walking tracks and fishing in a relatively undeveloped natural setting.

Visitors can expect a largely undeveloped coastal landscape of long sandy beaches, large sand dunes, coastal heath, swamps and pockets of rainforest surrounding the small village of Hat Head. The park offers beach walking, swimming and surfing at unpatrolled beaches, fishing from beach and estuary, birdwatching in wetlands, and short walking tracks to headlands and lookouts such as Korogoro Point. Facilities are basic and focused on day-use picnic areas and campgrounds, with a quiet, natural environment.