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The Clay Pan Gallery is a coffee shop in a wonderfully relaxing setting. You can eat indoors next to the gallery featuring local artwork, or outdoors in the country garden.
A good selection of cakes, including gluten free.
21 Depot Road, off Victoria Street, West Dubbo. Phone: 02 6882 5828
Open 9.30am to 4pm Wednesday - Monday
The Western Plains Cultural Centre has recently opened in Dubbo. The new complex contains the Dubbo Regional Gallery, the Dubbo Regional Museum and the Dubbo Community Arts Centre, as well as a small coffee shop. A good place to find out a bit about Dubbo’s history via pictures and historic artifacts.
It at 76 Wingewarra Street and is Wednesday to Monday (Closed Tuesdays)
from 10.00am-4.00pm. Phone 02 6801 4444
If you are cyclist, then this fellow from Dubbo has compiled a list of good bike rides in and around Dubbo, NSW.
Entry is free. A fantastic hands-on Kids playground - lots of fun equipment.
Learn how to throw a boomerang or play a didgeridoo. Ring before you go to make sure someone is around, they are more oriented to manufacturing than tourism, but worth a visit.
(02) 6882 3110
http://www.jeddaboomerangs.com.au/
Their website is down at the moment, it is being re-developed.
4.3km on the Minore Road, (Minore Road is a right turn off the highway to Parkes, just before the golf course.)
A great spot for a picnic, Victoria Park is without a doubt the best Park in Dubbo. It’s right in the centre of Dubbo, opposite the railway station, on the corner of Darling and Talbragar Streets. A great place for a walk, or game of cricket, or just to sit down and read a book, have a birthday party, whatever. Lot’s of shade.
It’s often hard to find good public BBQs on holidays, but the council have just installed new free electric BBQs in Victoria Park which are very good, and plenty hot enough to cook a steak on.
The Macquarie River flows through Dubbo. It can be nice to sit by the river if you get the right spot. At the bottom of Tamworth Street there is a walking track along the river out to the Zoo which is very nice. Here is a picture of the start of teh walking track at teh bottom end of Tamworth Street.
If you want a picnic by the river, a nice place is on the South West bank of the river, near the West Dubbo Bowling Club. From the main street heading south, turn over the bridge, then left at the roundabout, towards the Zoo. Turn first left after the West Dubbo bowlign club, into a little steep road that takes you down to a picnic area on the river bank with shelters and a BBQ.
