An attractive rural valley; now without the shops, school, churches, or the combined milk depot/post office of the past.

Photographer Jeff Carter moved onto a 45-hectare abandoned farm in the area with his Californian wife Mare in 1962 and together they set up a wildlife sanctuary, which is documented in her book A Wild Life — Bringing up a Bush Menagerie.

[5] The relatively fertile soils and generous rainfall produced high quality sub-tropical rainforest in the area.

Significant species include Australian red cedar, camphorwood, yellow ash, deciduous fig, and Illawarra plum.

However, in 1950 Foxground received 4,263 mm, one of the highest annual rainfalls ever recorded in New South Wales.