Why this ride
It goes by way of Border Ranges National Park, Telemon Environmental Park, Lamington National Park and back through Telemon Environmental Park.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Cronan Creek State Forest and Lamington National Park
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 449 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 7 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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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Distances and riding times are planning figures. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Cronan Creek State Forest is where the day begins. Next is Border Ranges National Park.
2. 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.
Read the complete Border Ranges National Park write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Border Ranges National Park comes up about 72 km into the recorded legs. Next is Telemon Environmental Park.
3. Telemon Environmental Park
The country south of Beaudesert, in Queensland's Scenic Rim, is a soft landscape of cattle paddocks, gum-lined creeks and wooded hills that rise steadily towards the volcanic ranges along the New South Wales border. Telemon Environmental Park is one of the small protected patches in these hills, near the resort village of Kooralbyn, a reminder of the open eucalypt forest that once covered the whole area.
Read the complete Telemon Environmental Park write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 155 km into the recorded legs you reach Telemon Environmental Park. Next is Lamington National Park.
4. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Lamington National Park, about halfway. Next is back through Telemon Environmental Park.
5. back through Telemon Environmental Park
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Telemon Environmental Park write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Telemon Environmental Park sits at 299 km, about halfway. Next is back through Border Ranges National Park.
6. back through Border Ranges National Park
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Border Ranges National Park write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Border Ranges National Park comes up about 377 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cronan Creek State Forest.
7. Cronan Creek State Forest
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cronan Creek State Forest write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Cronan Creek State Forest closes the day.
Leg by leg
Cronan Creek State Forest to Border Ranges National Park
Cronan Creek State Forest → Border Ranges National Park is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Border Ranges National Park to Telemon Environmental Park
Border Ranges National Park → Telemon Environmental Park is 83 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Telemon Environmental Park to Lamington National Park
Telemon Environmental Park → Lamington National Park is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lamington National Park to back through Telemon Environmental Park
Lamington National Park → back through Telemon Environmental Park is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Telemon Environmental Park to back through Border Ranges National Park
back through Telemon Environmental Park → back through Border Ranges National Park is 83 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Border Ranges National Park to Cronan Creek State Forest
back through Border Ranges National Park → Cronan Creek State Forest is 72 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.