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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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937 km from Murwillumbah to Murwillumbah, about 16 h 09 of riding. It goes by way of Lamington National Park, Border Ranges National Park, Mount Nothofagus Flora Reserve and Gilbert State Forest. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
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 Lamington National Park.
Ask anyone in Brisbane about Lamington and they will probably mention one of two roads, and both of them will make you work. The national park covers the high plateau of the McPherson Range on the Queensland side of the border, a huge expanse of rainforest, waterfalls and cliff-edged lookouts at the heart of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage area. It was named after Lord Lamington, a governor of Queensland at the end of the nineteenth century, who is said to have been less than thrilled to have a park, and later a cake, named after him.
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Lamington National Park comes up about 114 km into the recorded legs. Next is Border Ranges National Park.
Twenty three million years ago a huge shield volcano stood over what is now the border between New South Wales and Queensland, and the Border Ranges are the remains of its northern and western rim. The volcano has long since eroded, leaving a vast caldera with the steep central plug of Wollumbin, also known as Mount Warning, rising in the middle, and a ring of cliffs and ridges around it covered in dense subtropical rainforest. The Border Ranges National Park protects a large part of that rim, and it is part of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia, a World Heritage Site that preserves forests whose ancestry goes back to the time when Australia was part of the supercontinent Gondwana.
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about 237 km into the recorded legs you reach Border Ranges National Park. Next is Mount Nothofagus Flora Reserve.
Nothofagus is the botanical name of the southern beech, and the name of this reserve gives away its treasure: stands of Antarctic beech growing high on the McPherson Range along the Queensland–New South Wales border. These gnarled, moss-covered trees, some of them centuries old and sprouting from root systems far older still, are living relics of the forests that covered Gondwana before Australia drifted away from Antarctica.
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Mount Nothofagus Flora Reserve, about halfway. Next is Gilbert State Forest.
West of Brisbane, the Great Dividing Range rises as a dark wall above the plains, and Gilbert State Forest sits on its western slopes, where the rainforest of the escarpment gives way to drier eucalypt woodland and the farmland of the Darling Downs. To the east lies Main Range National Park, with its high peaks and steep cliffs; to the west, the land opens out towards Warwick and the wide grain fields beyond.
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Gilbert State Forest sits at 469 km, about halfway. Next is back through Mount Nothofagus Flora Reserve.
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Read the complete Mount Nothofagus Flora Reserve write-up.
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back through Mount Nothofagus Flora Reserve comes up about 589 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Border Ranges National Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Border Ranges National Park write-up.
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about 700 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Border Ranges National Park. Next is back through Lamington National Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Lamington National Park write-up.
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back through Lamington National Park, late in the day. Next is Amaroo Flora Reserve.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Amaroo Flora Reserve write-up.
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The route ends here after 937 km.
Amaroo Flora Reserve → Lamington National Park is 114 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lamington National Park → Border Ranges National Park is 123 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Border Ranges National Park → Mount Nothofagus Flora Reserve is 111 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mount Nothofagus Flora Reserve → Gilbert State Forest is 120 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gilbert State Forest → back through Mount Nothofagus Flora Reserve is 120 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mount Nothofagus Flora Reserve → back through Border Ranges National Park is 111 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Border Ranges National Park → back through Lamington National Park is 123 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Lamington National Park → Amaroo Flora Reserve is 114 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.