I'm not quite sure whether anyone actually lives within the 2849 postcode area - it covers large areas of national park and state forest. It's north of Clarence (where the Zig Zag Railway used to be till it was burnt out in the big bushfire last year) and east of Newnes. It includes some of the places my Thursday bushwalking group has been happily expeditioning in for the last couple of years: Donkey Mountain and the Glow-Worm Tunnel for example.
The area is riddled with four wheel drive tracks, and navigation around them takes a bit of care. There are forestry plantations (and log trucks roaring around), there's a big ugly coal mine, there are lots of pegs and other markers indicating all kinds of exploitative and damaging intent. But, there are still areas of amazing natural beauty and fabulous, other-worldly views. Much of it is 'pagoda country', with lots of these so scenic and so climbable things. They're 250 million year old relics of eroded sandstone with ironstone banding, originating in a big river delta of the time.
We checked out four of the scenic short walks (at Bald Trig, Bungleboori
Lookout, The Lost City, and Lurline Jack Lookout). We explored a little
further around most of them, climbing lots of pagodas along the way. As
requested by the Colong Foundation, we took care not to stand on the
wafer thin edge bits, as this can damage them (and us, if we fell tens
of metres down the cliffs below!)Because of the fire last year it was all pretty open, and progress through the bush was far easier than it probably would normally be. A lot dirtier too though. We were soon covered in soot and looking like old fashioned coal miners!
We're not yet all pagoda'd out, so I imagine we'll be back in 2849 again before too long! 
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