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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286 km from Murwillumbah to Murwillumbah, about 4 h 55 of riding. On the way it passes Numinbah Nature Reserve, Lamington National Park and back through Numinbah Nature Reserve. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 Numinbah Nature Reserve.
On the New South Wales side of the border range above the Gold Coast hinterland, the land rises into steep, forested ridges that are the eroded rim of the ancient Tweed Volcano. Numinbah Nature Reserve protects a slice of this country, a jumble of rainforest gullies, eucalypt slopes and rocky outcrops, looking south across the great green bowl of the Tweed valley towards the sharp peak of Wollumbin, also known as Mount Warning.
Read the complete Numinbah Nature Reserve write-up.
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Numinbah Nature Reserve comes up about 64 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Read the complete Lamington National Park write-up.
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about 143 km into the recorded legs you reach Lamington National Park. Next is back through Numinbah Nature Reserve.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Numinbah Nature Reserve write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Numinbah Nature Reserve, late in the day. 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.
Back at Amaroo Flora Reserve. That is the ride.
Amaroo Flora Reserve → Numinbah Nature Reserve is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Numinbah Nature Reserve → Lamington National Park is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lamington National Park → back through Numinbah Nature Reserve is 79 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Numinbah Nature Reserve → Amaroo Flora Reserve is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.