The 2,024-hectare (5,000-acre) reserve is situated east of Budderoo National Park, and west of the city of Kiama.

[1] The reserve can also be accessed from the south, via a local road and a bush walk from the town of Berry.

The nature reserve has several good lookouts that offer views of the coast.

The reserve is part of the 7,334-hectare (18,120-acre) Budderoo and Barren Grounds Important Bird Area which contains large numbers of endangered eastern bristlebirds, as well as smaller numbers of pilotbirds and rockwarblers, in a mosaic of sandstone heath and eucalypt woodland habitats.

[2] This New South Wales protected areas related article is a stub.