Port Macquarie & Hastings
Nº 31 · 31.4°S 152.9°E · Sydney 300 km
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Port Macquarie dominates the count here, holding jewellers, printmakers, framers and gallery spaces alongside a museum, a regional theatre and gallery complex, and most of the region's small-batch producers. Wauchope carries its own heritage-village museum and a small family winery, while Herons Creek, Lake Cathie and Bonny Hills add single vineyards, a furniture restorer and an art-and-wine venue. Comboyne and Rollands Plains sit apart from the coastal cluster, home to regenerative farms rather than shopfronts. The pattern reads as a working coastal town with a genuine craft and jewellery trade, a heritage-conscious cultural sector, and a scattered ring of vineyards and farms filling out the hinterland beyond it.
Best time to visit
With vineyards, farms and open-air heritage venues spread across the coast and hinterland, drier months make outdoor tastings, farm visits and gallery courtyards more comfortable. Coastal towns like Port Macquarie and Lake Cathie suit any season for indoor culture and craft browsing, while inland stops around Wauchope and the farming localities are more pleasant outside the height of summer humidity.
What sets it apart
Craft listings outnumber every other category by a wide margin, concentrated almost entirely in Port Macquarie's jewellers, printmakers and studio spaces. Small batch producers, by contrast, are dispersed — a distillery and brewery in town, but vineyards pushed out to Wauchope, Herons Creek and Lake Cathie. Culture is anchored by two Port Macquarie institutions and one Wauchope heritage park. That combination — dense in-town craft trade, thin but scattered rural producers, and only a handful of heritage anchors — marks this as a working regional centre rather than a curated visitor strip.
Where to start
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In season · September
- Humpback whale migrationWildlifeApril–November
North to calve and south again with the calves alongside, close enough to the coast to watch from the headland.
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Guides to Port Macquarie & Hastings
Highlights
A selection of standout places across Port Macquarie & Hastings
Ricardoes Tomatoes & Strawberries
Ten minutes inland from Port Macquarie, past the point where the Hastings River…
ShopsBonny Hills Garden Centre
Thirty-odd years in the ground has given this Mid-North Coast fixture a scale…
MakersPort Heritage Jewellers, Watch & Clock Makers
Port Heritage Jewellers, Watch & Clock Makers honours Port Macquarie's maritime…
NaturePort Macquarie Coastal Walk
Nine kilometres of path link Town Green on Port Macquarie's foreshore with…
Wine & spiritsMaria River Distillery
A holiday on the Amalfi Coast set this going: the family came home fixated on…
Museums & galleriesCamden Haven Museum
The Laurieton School of Arts opened in 1911, a Federation timber hall with…
Wine & spirits
Bago Maze and Wine
Herons Creek, NSW
Jim and Kay Mobbs planted their first Chardonnay vines on the Hastings River alluvial flats in…
Bago Vineyards
Herons Creek, NSW
Jim and Kay Mobbs planted the first Chardonnay vines here in 1985, on the alluvial flats of their…
Cassegrain Wines
Port Macquarie, NSW
Port Macquarie sits far north of the state's main wine country, which makes Cassegrain an unusual…
Douglas Vale Historic Homestead & Vineyard
Port Macquarie, NSW
The Hastings region's oldest timber homestead — built in 1862, still standing on the Oxley Highway…
Inneslake Vineyards
Port Macquarie, NSW
A vineyard and winery at Innes Lake Estate, on the coast at Port Macquarie. Wine experiences are…
Long Point Vineyard & Art Gallery
Lake Cathie, NSW
A cellar door and gallery on the mid-north coast, where wine tastings share the grounds with…
Maria River Distillery
Crescent Head, NSW
A holiday on the Amalfi Coast set this going: the family came home fixated on how Italians make…
Moorebeer Brewing Co.
Port Macquarie, NSW
Family-owned and operating out of Merrigal Road, Moorebeer runs 17 taps and a tight weekly schedule…
Port Macquarie Distillery
Port Macquarie, NSW
Six founders — among them master distiller Ray Barth — run this gin-focused operation out of Port…
Timbertown Winery
Wauchope, NSW
Father-and-son team the Rullis family run this small winery out of the Timbertown Heritage Village…
Museums & galleries
Camden Haven Museum
Laurieton, NSW
The Laurieton School of Arts opened in 1911, a Federation timber hall with Dutch gables and a…
Glasshouse Port Macquarie
Port Macquarie, NSW
Port Macquarie's civic cultural anchor occupies a purpose-built centre with a 588-seat tiered…
Glasshouse Regional Gallery
Port Macquarie, NSW
Port Macquarie's civic arts hub occupies a striking multi-level building on Clarence Street, with…
Port Macquarie Regional Museum
Port Macquarie, NSW
Port Macquarie Regional Museum traces the mid-North Coast from Birpai Country through convict…
Makers
Akubra
South Kempsey, NSW
Fur-felt hats have been made in this Macleay Valley town for well over a century, and the workshop…
Alpitye At Port Online Art Gallery
Port Macquarie, NSW
Alpitye At Port Online Art Gallery, based on Short Street in New South Wales, bridges the worlds of…
Andrew's Cabinetry
Port Macquarie, NSW
Andrew's Cabinetry crafts enduring wooden furniture and joinery on Jambali Road, where solid…
Angus & Coote Settlement City
Port Macquarie, NSW
Angus & Coote Settlement City anchors fine jewellery expertise at Settlement City Shopping Centre,…
Antonija Gros Studios
Port Macquarie, NSW
Antonija Gros runs drawing, painting and art history classes out of a north-facing, naturally lit…
Art Of The Empire
Port Macquarie, NSW
Art Of The Empire brings visual artistry to Horton Street in New South Wales, creating work rooted…
Arthouse Industries
Port Macquarie, NSW
Arthouse Industries operates from Park Street in NSW as an accessible ceramics studio with extended…
Bago Woodworks
Wauchope, NSW
From a factory on Commerce Street, Wauchope, Bago Woodworks produces custom timber doors, windows,…
Binna Burra Timbers & Cabinets
Port Macquarie, NSW
Binna Burra Timbers & Cabinets brings masterful woodworking to Port Macquarie, where fine timber…
Birch Restorations
Bonny Hills, NSW
A furniture restoration workshop in Bonny Hills, trading for more than two decades. The team…
Bron Lowe Ceramics
Port Macquarie, NSW
Bron Lowe makes ceramics in Port Macquarie that resist the standalone object — pieces are designed…
Canvas Momentz
Port Macquarie, NSW
Tucked into The Hub Centre on Bellbowrie Street, this print and framing shop handles everything…
Places to stay
Diamond Waters Treehouse Retreat
Dunbogan, NSW
Two hand-built treehouses on five hectares at Dunbogan, behind Diamond Head on the Camden Haven…
Nature Domes
Toms Creek, NSW
Six geodomes sit across 110 acres of Toms Creek hinterland, four hours north of Sydney. Each comes…
Tallowwood House
Port Macquarie, NSW
A short walk from Shelly Beach in Port Macquarie, this hosted bed and breakfast sits behind a…
Nature
Billabong Zoo Koala & Wildlife Park
Port Macquarie, NSW
On ten acres at the edge of Port Macquarie, this independent koala and wildlife park has run a…
Dooragan National Park
Laurieton, NSW
North Brother Mountain rises just west of Laurieton, the coastal village on the Camden Haven, and…
Kattang Nature Reserve
Laurieton, NSW
Coastal cliffs and heathland cover this headland reserve beside Laurieton and Dunbogan on the…
Port Macquarie Coastal Walk
Port Macquarie, NSW
Nine kilometres of path link Town Green on Port Macquarie's foreshore with Tacking Point…
Sea Acres Rainforest Centre
Port Macquarie, NSW
A 1.3-kilometre boardwalk runs through coastal rainforest in Sea Acres National Park, on Pacific…
Shops
Bonny Hills Garden Centre
Bonny Hills, NSW
Thirty-odd years in the ground has given this Mid-North Coast fixture a scale rarely found outside…
Brush Turkey Books
Wingham, NSW
An owner-curated independent bookshop on Wingham's Bent Street, run by Helen Kemp and Lee Murray,…
Greenbourne Nursery
Wauchope, NSW
Just off the highway between Port Macquarie and Laurieton, this Wauchope operation is the kind of…
Food & dining
Armstrong Oysters
Laurieton, NSW
A Sydney rock oyster farm on the Camden Haven, selling straight from its shopfront at 1 Short…
Ball's Butchery & Providore
South West Rocks, NSW
A fixture of Paragon Avenue since 1951, this family butcher has outlasted generations of Macleay…
Barcino Bread
Port Macquarie, NSW
A single-site sourdough bakery on Blackbutt Road run by a baker and his wife who once kept a bakery…
Bent on Food
Wingham, NSW
A fixture of Wingham's heritage main street, this cafe and regional food store trades on Mid North…
Bills Fishhouse + Bar
Port Macquarie, NSW
A contemporary seafood restaurant and bar tucked into the Clarence House development in the heart…
Chef2farmer
Rollands Plains, NSW
Todd Richardson cooked for twenty years — eight of them at LV's on Clarence in Port Macquarie, the…
Dorsal by the Sea
Forster, NSW
Sitting right on Forster's Main Beach at the West Street end, this restaurant, grill and bar makes…
Eungai Creek Buffalo
Tamban, NSW
A short drive off the highway on the valley's western flank, a herd of water buffalo supplies one…
Florence Jones
Port Macquarie, NSW
An independent wine, cheese and charcuterie store and grazing bar on Clarence Street, set on the…
Flow Bar
Old Bar, NSW
A hundred metres from the beach at Old Bar, this cafe, bar and live-music room works a…
Grazed and Grown farm
Comboyne, NSW
Pete and Bec Armstrong farm Comboyne Plateau land that looks east over Bago Bluff to the ocean,…
Mentges Master Meats
Taree, NSW
German butchery brought to Taree in 1965 by Rudi Mentges, and still known around town as Rudi's…
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Tours & walks
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Departs Port MacquariePort Jet Cruise Adventures
A locally operated boat outfit working the Hastings River and coast off Port Macquarie…
Departs Lighthouse BeachPort Macquarie Camel Safaris
Lighthouse Beach runs long and straight south of Port Macquarie, and this is where the…
Departs Port MacquariePort Macquarie Fishing Charters
Skipper Brett runs deep-sea fishing charters out of Port Macquarie aboard the Ocean Star,…
Departs Port MacquariePort Macquarie Helicopters
Scenic helicopter flights over the Hastings coastline and hinterland, departing from Port…
Departs Port MacquarieSoul Surfing
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