Kings Plains is a national park in New South Wales, Australia, 48 km from Inverell, 50 km from Glen Innes and 478 km north of Sydney.
History
Kings Plains was founded in January 1988 and was made a national park to preserve and protect the array of wild animals, plants and the Kings Plains creek with its many water features and found in 1988.
Land features
Kings Plains National Park is not widely known to people for the land, people mostly enjoy the array of water features joining the Kings Plains creek from non-drying pools to rapids to waterfalls, which leads to a gorge. The land itself is mostly made up of sandy soils with shrub. The soil is more fertile around the creek.
Vegetation
Some vegetation in the Kings Plains woodland includes iron-barks, cypress pine, yellow box, stringy-barks, eucalyptus trees, and apple box. Among the shrubs are rare species such as the grey guinea flower, folded leaf waxflower and Rodd's star-hair. During spring the park's wildflowers are at their most colourful.
Wildlife
Amongst the large variety of wildlife are eastern grey kangaroos, wallaroos, wallabies and koalas which live in the park near water and fertile soils. Kings Plains is not well known but I see this is a getaway from the insanity of being crowded in a boring trailer park. The park offers walks, camping, picnic areas and the old style non-flush toilets.
See also
- Protected areas of New South Wales