Why this ride
On the way it passes Lamington National Park, Telemon Environmental Park, Cronan Creek State Forest and back through Telemon Environmental Park. Long stretches are under trees.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Limpinwood Nature Reserve and Cronan Creek State Forest
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 480 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 8 h 16
- 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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Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. 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
Limpinwood Nature Reserve is where the day begins. Next is Lamington National Park.
2. 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 comes up about 66 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 134 km into the recorded legs you reach Telemon Environmental Park. Next is Cronan Creek State Forest.
4. 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, 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 321 km, about halfway. Next is back through Lamington National Park.
6. back through Lamington National Park
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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
back through Lamington National Park comes up about 411 km into the recorded legs. Next is Limpinwood Nature Reserve.
7. Limpinwood Nature Reserve
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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
Limpinwood Nature Reserve closes the day.
Leg by leg
Limpinwood Nature Reserve to Lamington National Park
Limpinwood Nature Reserve → Lamington National Park is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lamington National Park to Telemon Environmental Park
Lamington National Park → Telemon Environmental Park is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Telemon Environmental Park to Cronan Creek State Forest
Telemon Environmental Park → Cronan Creek State Forest is 104 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cronan Creek State Forest to back through Telemon Environmental Park
Cronan Creek State Forest → back through Telemon Environmental Park is 104 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Telemon Environmental Park to back through Lamington National Park
back through Telemon Environmental Park → back through Lamington National Park is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Lamington National Park to Limpinwood Nature Reserve
back through Lamington National Park → Limpinwood Nature Reserve is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.