Hillview Heritage Estate

Hillview Heritage Estate at 7277 Illawarra Highway, Sutton Forest is a heritage property in the Southern Highlands offering cottage accommodation across quiet, sculpture-dotted grounds. The reason to book it with a dog is refreshingly straightforward: dogs of any size stay inside the rooms with you, at no charge, and every room opens onto a private outdoor patio.

Dogs at the Hillview Heritage Estate

Dogs are welcome overnight inside the rooms with their owners, with no size limit and no pet fee, which removes the usual negotiation over where the dog actually sleeps. The private patio on every room makes feeding, toilet breaks and downtime easy without dragging a large dog through shared corridors. Grounds rules around the heritage gardens and sculptures are the one thing to confirm at booking, along with any supervision expectations on the lawns.

The place

The accommodation is cottage-style rather than institutional: rooms come with air conditioning, private patios, fridges and microwaves, and the wider property adds a continental breakfast, free parking, a library and BBQ and picnic areas. The feel is quaint and serene, and the estate overlooks rolling hills and misty valleys that make an early-morning on-lead walk around the grounds a genuine draw.

Max: pack a long line. Heritage gardens are look-don't-romp territory for most dogs, and the patios are where off-lead downtime actually happens.

Getting there

The estate sits on the Illawarra Highway at Sutton Forest, about ten minutes from Moss Vale and an easy run from Bowral or a touch over 90 minutes from Sydney via the Hume Motorway, with free self-parking on site.

While you're out there

Let the dog run properly at the Exeter fenced dog park a few minutes up the road, grab coffee at The Cabin Exeter, or keep the cottage theme going at Reedy Creek Cottage next stay.

More options are on the New South Wales dog friendly stays guide and the Sutton Forest destination page.