Instead the area remains quiet, despite the fact local roads have reopened after recent landslips.

Café owner Beth Packer is urging Shoalhaven regulars to return to their favourite spots on the mountain, and in Kangaroo Valley, to support the local businesses which are no longer isolated.

READ MORE:

Public access to Cambewarra Mountain and Kangaroo Valley is now possible from the south via Moss Vale Road, where regular escorts are running at all hours. Kangaroo Valley Road is also open to all traffic.

Ms Packer, who lives on the mountain and commutes to Nowra often, said she had found navigating the safety escort on Moss Vale Rd orderly, and even pleasant.

"A lot of people are out there [on the road] looking after us," she said.

"The convoys are going into the valley on the hour and back again on the half-hour, so they are very regular.

"I actually find it quite pleasant... you've got an escort the whole way up. There's no real need for the business not to be flowing though to us and to the valley.

'I'd say it could be through misinformation or fear - if people don't know what they're going to find on the mountain - but it's all fine."

For the local businesses and their patrons, access on the southern side is the only option.

The northern section of Moss Vale Rd, between Barrengarry and Fitzroy Falls, will remain closed until stabilisation works can be done.

Before the spate of wild weather, business was just starting to pick up for many in the area; bushfires and COVID lockdowns posed one challenge after the other for locals.

Ms Packer said she hopes locals will choose to visit, knowing there is safe passage via the tourist roads.

"[Before the landslides] we had actually been booming," she said.

"This is such a lovely place to come, it has been a safe place during COVID, and it still remains so.

"We want our regulars to realise that it is now safe to come, and their business is needed - the customers are very much needed to keep this area alive."