Trilby Station
Situated on the banks of the Darling River in Outback NSW, near the village of Louth. Trilby Station offers visitors a chance to experience life on a working sheep and cattle station. Originally part of historic Dunlop - first ever to complete a mechanical shearing in 1888. Seasonal station activities, abundant wildlife, nature trails, 4WD tours, bird watching, fishing, yabbying, canoeing and excellent mud maps for self exploration of the station. Visit our open air museum of early settler’s farm machinery, steam engines and just enjoy pottering around this vast station.Comfortable accommodation is offered in the fully renovated Stockman's Cottages and the new Shearer’s Bunkhouse, and delicious country style meals available on request. Trilby also offers powered caravan sites and secluded river campsites. Your friendly hosts and the picturesque Australian landscape make this a unique experience.
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Spent 3 nights camped on the river at the Bobs site with 2 other families. Best bathroom facilities in our whole outback trip. And it was great to have Telstra mobile phone reception.
Terrific camp spot with a fireplace, wood to collect close by, wheelie bin for rubbish and a nice sandbar for the kids to play on and fish/yabby from.
Included in the tariff is yabby nets (and some bait to get you started), kayaks and canoes, and trip notes for mud map drives in the station ( with excellent notes and plant/tree guide).
Very friendly hosts, pet friendly for all but 'hunting dog' types. Definitely recommend.
This is one of the best station stays on the Darling River, though we also enjoyed others like Bindara on the Darling (south of Pooncarie) and Nelia Gaari between Menindee and Wilcannia. Passed another couple of signs too, Kallara near Tilpa and Idalia not far from Trilby, though it said closed temporarily so it seems they are a popular place for travellers to stay when doing the Darling River Run. I'd read about Trilby before but we picked up an Outback Beds map in Wilcannia (two great coffee shops here and plenty of beautiful historic sandstone buildings), and Trilby is part of that group. It's a great map and details lots of farmstays and unique accommodation outback ...read more
It was great to have the opportunity to spend some time on a working station. We enjoyed one night on the river bank and another couple on power up near the homestead. We had fridge/freezer problems in the van and Liz helped us out with the use of the camp kitchen fridge, which gave us the chance to gets ours working.
We enjoyed the trip around the station with the use of the Mud Map and the information about the workings of the station - all very interesting.
Liz is a great host, and we felt very welcome. We would definitely recommend it to our camping friends, and would love to visit again some day.
What an oasis in the dry,drought stricken outback. The four of us stayed in the Overseer's Cottage for three nights last week and soaked up the Murray's outback way of life by chatting to Liz and taking their two mud map tours ( the guys were out fending about 100km away, gone before daylight and home after dark) ...which have terrific explanatory notes.
It was hot, hot, hot but the beaut cottage had superb air-conditioning and is beside a lovely pool, and Liz's home cooked meals were great.. The farmstay was closed for a couple of weeks during the height of summer to allow Liz ( who runs the farmstay single handedly) a short break. They have no staff (no one can ...read more
Tried to book a camping site on the river....
Left 2 emails no reply, left numerous phone messages no reply.
When we went to the front gate there was a sign saying closed.
Finally got the management on the phone but they said this persons's wife wasn't around so we couldn't camp by the river.
What a very poorly run business.
We were totally self suffiicent with myself and my 13 year old son but no they wouldn't even let us camp by the river.
Don't waste your time going out to Trilby.
It's unfortunate that you tried to book with us whilst I was in Sydney for medical appointments. As the sole person running the tourism side of our station we need to close if I am away overnight. All of our advertising advises people to make a booking/call before driving out to the station, so it's a pity you ignored that advice. Sure, you just want to camp self sufficient with your son, but what happens if you are bitten by a snake, or have some other accident? Who will you turn to? It would be very irresponsible on our part to accept guests when there is noone looking after them.
