NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service has opened a new stretch of the popular Mungo Brush Road in time for the summer holidays.
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NPWS has spent $6.1 million moving the road away from an encroaching sand dune and upgrading the Dark Point car park in Myall Lakes National Park.
NPWS Hunter Central Coast director Kylie Yeend said the 3.2km stretch of Mungo Brush Road had been threatened by the westward shift of Dark Point sand dune.
"We've completed the project right on target. The Christmas holiday season is upon us. Our new roads and car parks are ready for locals and visitors," Ms Yeend said.
"We've saved this important road from being swallowed by the mobile sand dunes by relocating it.
"Its new position also protects the dune complex, which is a culturally significant, declared Aboriginal place."
The sand dunes have been moving west 3.3 metres to 5.9 metres every year.
The new car park at Dark Point, also known as Little Gibber, includes parking for buses and long-wheel-base vehicles and a walking track to the sand dunes.
NPWS will reopen a small section of the nearby Mungo walking track, from Robinsons Crossing to Brambles Green, early next year after maintenance and rehabilitation works.
The previous alignment of Mungo Brush Road was alongside Dark Point dunes, a 250-hectare mobile sand dune complex with cultural significance to the Worimi people.
The new sealed road runs west alongside the former Mungo Brush Road, linking southern Myall Lakes National Park with Tea Gardens, Hawks Nest and Bulahdelah.