The Reserve is 26km from Tabulam, via Paddys Flat road and the Bruxner Highway, and 50km from Urbenville via Paddys Flat Road, and Legume road.
Dedicated on the 4th Dec 1912, the Reserve covers about 9.6ha.

Geology, topography and soils

The Reserve is on the southern side of the Crescent Hills ridge, which is capped with chocolate basalt soil. This basalt is probably a remnant of a lava flow from the focal peak volcanic system centred on Mt. Barney, on the QLD/NSW border. Below the basalt is a conglomerate of sedimentary rocks overlaying the base granite.
At an elevation ranging from 450m to 500m, the Reserve aspect is southerly and the rainfall averages 125Omm per annum.
Pretty Gully Creek parallels the southern boundary of the Reserve. The creek is spring fed and is reputed not to have ceased flowing in 150 years of European Settlement.

Native Flora

Two major vegetation types occurr within the Reserve. Approximately 3.9ha of rainforest with the remainder being wet sclerophyll with the most numerous species being blue gum, tallow wood and brush box. This wet sclerophyll whilst affected by illegal timber felling in the past has recovered to a large degree. The rainforest, classified as lowland rainforest of the black booyong, red bean and pigeonberry ash association has been and continues to be affected by, blow downs creating holes in the canopy; by the stealing of epiphytic ferns; and in the past, by an illegal access road. The closed road now provides as a short pleasant walking track.
Renowned rainforest ecologist A.K. Floyd has surveyed the Reserve, noting that the rainforest is a very good example of the once widespread lowland subtropical rainforest on basaltic soil. As a result of extensive clearing, this vegetation community is now listed as endangered. The reserve itself is only a remnant of a considerably greater area which once extended along Pretty Gully. The reserve is possibly close to the minimum area possible for sustained viability.