Why this ride
A 98 km round trip from Murwillumbah - roughly 2 h 46 in the saddle. On the way it passes Numinbah Nature Reserve, Limpinwood Nature Reserve and back through Numinbah Nature Reserve.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Amaroo Flora Reserve and Limpinwood Nature Reserve
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 98 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 2 h 46
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Amaroo Flora Reserve
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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Amaroo Flora Reserve is where the day begins. Next is Numinbah Nature Reserve.
2. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Numinbah Nature Reserve comes up about 27 km into the recorded legs. Next is Limpinwood Nature Reserve.
3. Limpinwood Nature Reserve
Twenty-odd million years ago, a huge shield volcano stood where the Tweed valley is now, on what became the border between New South Wales and Queensland. Erosion has since carved out its centre, leaving one of the largest erosion calderas in the world, a vast bowl of green farmland ringed by cliffs and ridges, with the volcano's old central plug, Wollumbin, also known as Mount Warning, standing in the middle. Limpinwood Nature Reserve, on the northern rim of the caldera, protects a stretch of subtropical rainforest that is part of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site preserving forests whose lineage goes back to the ancient supercontinent.
Read the complete Limpinwood Nature Reserve write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 49 km into the recorded legs you reach Limpinwood Nature Reserve. Next is back through Numinbah Nature Reserve.
4. back through Numinbah Nature Reserve
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Numinbah Nature Reserve write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Numinbah Nature Reserve, late in the day. Next is Amaroo Flora Reserve.
5. Amaroo Flora Reserve
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Amaroo Flora Reserve write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Amaroo Flora Reserve. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Amaroo Flora Reserve to Numinbah Nature Reserve
Amaroo Flora Reserve → Numinbah Nature Reserve is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Numinbah Nature Reserve to Limpinwood Nature Reserve
Numinbah Nature Reserve → Limpinwood Nature Reserve is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Limpinwood Nature Reserve to back through Numinbah Nature Reserve
Limpinwood Nature Reserve → back through Numinbah Nature Reserve is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Numinbah Nature Reserve to Amaroo Flora Reserve
back through Numinbah Nature Reserve → Amaroo Flora Reserve is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.