Tramways operated by a steam-powered winding engine pulled the trams up and down the precipitous incline to the Bakers Creek mines.

The difficulties and expense of its deep underground workings led investors and miners to seek more profitable ventures elsewhere.

In March 2004, the Hillgrove Gold Project near Armidale was purchased by Straits Resources, who made development plans for the area.

It was later owned by Meridian Capital of Hong Kong, but in December 2015 it closed again, largely due to a fall in antimony prices from $8,000 to $5,000 a tonne.

[7] Long Point campground is 18 km south of Hillgrove in the wilderness of Oxley Wild Rivers National Park.

There are two posted walking tracks through dry rainforest and around the rim of the gorge offering good views over the Chandler and Macleay River systems.

These trees have a distinctive, mottled, greenish trunk with peeling yellow-brown bark (like jigsaw puzzle pieces).

Its range is restricted to Mount Barney National Park in Queensland and in NSW to the Wyong and Hillgrove areas.