Why this ride
The stops in between: Numinbah Nature Reserve, Mount Warning National Park and back through Numinbah Nature Reserve. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Limpinwood Nature Reserve and Mount Warning National Park
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 102 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 2 h 45
- 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.
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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. 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 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 22 km into the recorded legs. Next is Mount Warning National Park.
3. Mount Warning National Park
Wollumbin, as the Bundjalung people call it, rises on the Queensland border like a huge broken tooth, the central plug of the eroded Tweed volcano. Captain Cook saw it from the sea in 1770 and named it Mount Warning, as a signal of the dangerous reefs offshore. At just over eleven hundred metres it is not high, but standing alone above a vast bowl, ringed by the cliffs of the old crater rim, it looks far greater. It is often said to be the first place on the Australian mainland to catch the sun each morning, though that depends on how you measure.
Read the complete Mount Warning National Park write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 51 km into the recorded legs you reach Mount Warning National Park. 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 Limpinwood Nature Reserve.
5. 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
Back at Limpinwood Nature Reserve. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Limpinwood Nature Reserve to Numinbah Nature Reserve
Limpinwood Nature Reserve → Numinbah Nature Reserve is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Numinbah Nature Reserve to Mount Warning National Park
Numinbah Nature Reserve → Mount Warning National Park is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mount Warning National Park to back through Numinbah Nature Reserve
Mount Warning National Park → back through Numinbah Nature Reserve is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Numinbah Nature Reserve to Limpinwood Nature Reserve
back through Numinbah Nature Reserve → Limpinwood Nature Reserve is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.