Talk:Barrington Tops National Park

Subdivide into Central, Polblue Honeysuckle, and Gloucester Tops

I know it might be strange to consider splitting an article that is barely over 10,000 bytes, but hear me out on this. It'd be desirable to have more local knowledge on this – my knowledge of this park is primarily first-hand, though it's limited to the Polblue Honeysuckle and Gloucester Tops sections.

For starters, none of the three sections are connected to each other by road – this means that to travel from one section to another, you will need to exit the park and then reenter the park. Most notably, between the Central and Gloucester Tops section, this can take three hours. Usually, a day is required to visit each section of the park

Although uncommon on the web, all the signs and information boards on the ground only contain information for that section only. It might be different in the park office (outside park), but that means that most travellers will only see local on-the-ground information for that section. In fact, this was the only map splitting everything into sections.

Thirdly, putting myself in the shoes of me a few months ago, it does not make practical sense from a traveller's point of view to have them all in one article. Just to give one example, nobody told me, nor was there any piece of evidence on the internet, that these sections weren't connected by road – I had only known about this when I saw this sign. Granted, I have yet to visit the Central section, but I think it's quite evident that someone visiting the Central section won't be visiting the northern two sections (Polblue Honeysuckle and Gloucester Tops) on the same trip.

I'll be happy to draft this in my userspace instead of splitting this article directly in mainspace, if that was a concern.

Other thoughts? --SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 04:25, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

If the 3 sections are functionally separate, 3 articles makes sense. Support. Ground Zero (talk) 11:33, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

Oh, and I also forgot, the park is fee-free, so there isn't a need to worry about that, either. --SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 11:37, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

Fine by me. As usual I'll defer to those who know the area, so User:SHB2000's opinion counts a lot here. Of course keep the top-level article & have it link to the others. Pashley (talk) 15:58, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

Support. Per Pashley. Veracious (talk) 10:21, 6 October 2023 (UTC)