Brooms Head is a coastal village, located 20km from Maclean in northern New South Wales.

[2] The area that is now Brooms Head was originally inhabited by the Yaegl people.

Archaeological evidence suggests that the area between Brooms Head and Sandon was a common meeting and hunting point for the Yaegl.

Residents from Maclean and farmers from around the Lower Clarence began to camp around Brooms Head from the 1880s.

[4] Primary industries in the surrounding area in the early years of settlement were timber cutting, sand mining and cattle farming, before the Yuraygir National Park was gazetted in 1970.