Burnt-out cars, furniture, whitegoods and tyres are among the rubbish that is dumped on a regular basis, while twice in the past two months, hundreds of advertising catalogues have been strewn along the road, only a couple of hundred metres south of Cessnock Racecourse.

"They've just tossed it everywhere," Ms Stuckings said.

"It's not a nice thing to do, especially when I've got to drive through it to get home."

Ms Stuckings said she and her son Andrew used to pick the rubbish up (collecting 14 bags full of bottles on one occasion), but it's "gotten too much" in recent times.

Anti-social activity has also been a problem on the road in the past, and the area is prone to bushfires (including a large fire that surrounded Ms Stuckings' home in November 2016).

But the family has had trouble having these issues dealt with in the past, because the access track to their home has "no formal road status" and there was difficulty in defining its jurisdiction, with Cessnock City Council only responsible for the 320-metre tarred stretch of road (which ends at the racecourse).

Regarding the recently dumped rubbish, a council spokesperson said rangers will be sent out to assess whether it is on council-managed land on Tuesday or Wednesday this week.

"Council works closely with key stakeholders on illegal dumping issues," the spokesperson said.

"The person responsible for cleaning it up would depend on who owns the land - for example, if it is in a National Park, Crown Lands, council-owned land, or private property, the owner of the land is responsible."

Illegal dumping can be reported to the Regional Illegal Dumping (RID) Squad, which was founded in 2015 to target problem areas, or directly to Cessnock City Council for local issues.

The RID Squad can be contacted on 131 555, or reports can be submitted online at https://ridonline.epa.nsw.gov.au.

Council's customer service team can be contacted on 4993 4100 for local dumping issues, and the team member will put in a customer service request for clean-up.