CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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A 459 km round trip from Murwillumbah - roughly 7 h 43 in the saddle. The stops in between: Nightcap National Park, Mount Chinghee National Park, Cronan Creek State Forest and back through Mount Chinghee National Park. Long stretches are under trees.
Behind the coast of northern New South Wales, the Tweed valley sits inside the remains of an enormous shield volcano that erupted some twenty-odd million years ago. Erosion has carved away the centre, leaving a huge caldera, one of the largest in the world, with the steep, forested walls of the Border Ranges and the McPherson Range curving around it and the volcanic plug of Wollumbin, also known as Mount Warning, rising in the middle. The Amaroo Flora Reserve lies on the slopes of this landscape, part of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia, a UNESCO site of scattered reserves along the Great Dividing Range.
Read the complete Amaroo Flora Reserve write-up.
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Amaroo Flora Reserve is where the day begins. Next is Nightcap National Park.
Nightcap National Park covers a high, wet plateau and escarpment north of Lismore in New South Wales, the remains of the rim of an ancient volcano centred on Wollumbin, Mount Warning, whose eroded caldera forms one of the largest in the world. The plateau receives some of the highest rainfall in the state, and it is covered in subtropical rainforest, tall eucalypt forest and dramatic waterfalls, including Minyon Falls, which drops about a hundred metres over a cliff of volcanic rock. Nightcap is one of the Gondwana Rainforests reserves, and in 2000 it made headlines when scientists found a previously unknown tree, the Nightcap oak, surviving in only a few small populations here.
Read the complete Nightcap National Park write-up.
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Nightcap National Park comes up about 77 km into the recorded legs. Next is Mount Chinghee National Park.
Mount Chinghee is one of those small national parks that most people drive past without noticing, which is a shame, because it guards a beautiful pocket of the border ranges. It lies near the head of the Albert River valley south of Beaudesert, close to the Queensland and New South Wales border, and like its neighbours it forms part of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage area. The trees here are the same subtropical rainforest types that once covered much of the old southern supercontinent, hanging on in the wetter folds of the ranges.
Read the complete Mount Chinghee National Park write-up.
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about 167 km into the recorded legs you reach Mount Chinghee National Park. Next is Cronan Creek State Forest.
Cronan Creek runs off the slopes of Mount Barney, one of the great peaks of the Scenic Rim, the arc of mountains along the Queensland and New South Wales border southwest of Brisbane. Mount Barney rises to over thirteen hundred metres, a rugged mass of volcanic rock covered in eucalyptus forest, with rainforest in the gullies and heathland near the summit, and it is the most challenging climb in southeast Queensland. The creek valley below is quiet and lovely, with clear water running over rocks, tall gums and grassy flats where wallabies graze at dusk.
Read the complete Cronan Creek State Forest write-up.
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Cronan Creek State Forest, about halfway. Next is back through Mount Chinghee National Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mount Chinghee National Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Mount Chinghee National Park sits at 153 km, about halfway. Next is back through Nightcap National Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Nightcap National Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Nightcap National Park comes up about 381 km into the recorded legs. Next is Amaroo Flora Reserve.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Amaroo Flora Reserve write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Amaroo Flora Reserve closes the day.
Amaroo Flora Reserve → Nightcap National Park is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Nightcap National Park → Mount Chinghee National Park is 90 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mount Chinghee National Park → Cronan Creek State Forest is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cronan Creek State Forest → back through Mount Chinghee National Park is 46 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mount Chinghee National Park → back through Nightcap National Park is 89 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Nightcap National Park → Amaroo Flora Reserve is 78 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.