Start from 49 curated places around Byron Bay, AU, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Harvest Newrybar
The Newrybar restaurant-deli-bakery complex 15 minutes inland that put hinterland dining on the national map — wood-fired everything, a kitchen garden out the back, and a 1900s federation cottage dining room. The Sunday lunch booking that defines a Byron weekend.
Three Blue Ducks at The Farm
The Bondi original's Byron outpost on 86 acres of working farm — chickens, pigs, market garden visible from the table, and a menu built around what's walking and growing outside. All-day dining from breakfast through dinner on weekends; the farm-to-fork pitch with actual farm attached.
Trails & outdoors
Cape Byron Walking Track
The 3.7km loop around the easternmost headland — Captain Cook Lookout, Wategos, the Pass, and the lighthouse linked by a graded path with some stairs. The walk every Byron visitor does at least once; sunrise is the version locals do.
Minyon Falls Loop Walk
The 7.5km Nightcap National Park loop from the lookout down to the base of the 100-metre falls and back via Quondong Falls — rainforest, basalt boulders, and a 300m climb back out. The serious Byron hinterland walk.
Things to do
Stone & Wood Brewery
The Pacific Ale brewery's tasting room on Centennial Circuit — short flights, pizzas, and the original Byron craft beer. The Friday-afternoon Byron knock-off venue before it's a tourist tick.
Brookies Gin Distillery (Cape Byron Distillery)
The Brook family's rainforest-restoration distillery in McLeod's Shoot — Brookies gin made with native botanicals foraged on the property, and a tour that doubles as a rainforest walk. Twenty minutes inland.
Landmarks & sights
Cape Byron Lighthouse
The 1901 working lighthouse on the easternmost point of mainland Australia — white-rendered tower, working keepers' cottages now let as holiday rentals, and the headland walking track wrapping all the way around it. Free to walk to; paid parking up top, free at the Captain Cook Lookout below.
Wategos Beach
The north-facing crescent tucked under Cape Byron — long, gentle longboard waves, calmer water than Main Beach, and the Rae's-on-Wategos hotel anchoring the south end. Where Byron's old surf-and-money set still goes when Main Beach gets backpacker-loud.