Why this ride
On the way it passes Mount Chinghee National Park, Turtle Rock Environmental Park, Nightcap National Park and back through Turtle Rock Environmental Park. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Mount Barney National Park and Nightcap National Park
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 569 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 9 h 14
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Mount Barney National Park
Mount Barney looks like it was put there to be argued about. The rugged double summit rises to around 1,350 metres, the second-highest peak in south-east Queensland, and its bare rhyolite crags stand out above the softer farmland of the Scenic Rim like a fortress somebody forgot to finish. Geologists will tell you it is the eroded core of an ancient volcanic system; locals will tell you it has humbled plenty of overconfident walkers. Either way, it is part of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage area, which stretches along the border ranges between Queensland and New South Wales.
Read the complete Mount Barney National Park write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Mount Barney National Park is where the day begins. Next is Mount Chinghee National Park.
2. Mount Chinghee National Park
Mount Chinghee is one of those small national parks that most people drive past without noticing, which is a shame, because it guards a beautiful pocket of the border ranges. It lies near the head of the Albert River valley south of Beaudesert, close to the Queensland and New South Wales border, and like its neighbours it forms part of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage area. The trees here are the same subtropical rainforest types that once covered much of the old southern supercontinent, hanging on in the wetter folds of the ranges.
Read the complete Mount Chinghee National Park write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Mount Chinghee National Park comes up 43 km in. Next is Turtle Rock Environmental Park.
3. Turtle Rock Environmental Park
The Gold Coast hinterland is the green wall behind the beaches and high-rises of southern Queensland, and it is a steep, wet, forested country of ridges, gorges and waterfalls that climbs toward the New South Wales border. The nearby ranges belong to the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia, a UNESCO site said to protect the largest area of subtropical rainforest in the world.
Read the complete Turtle Rock Environmental Park write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
86 km in you reach Turtle Rock Environmental Park. Next is Nightcap National Park.
4. Nightcap National Park
Nightcap National Park covers a high, wet plateau and escarpment north of Lismore in New South Wales, the remains of the rim of an ancient volcano centred on Wollumbin, Mount Warning, whose eroded caldera forms one of the largest in the world. The plateau receives some of the highest rainfall in the state, and it is covered in subtropical rainforest, tall eucalypt forest and dramatic waterfalls, including Minyon Falls, which drops about a hundred metres over a cliff of volcanic rock. Nightcap is one of the Gondwana Rainforests reserves, and in 2000 it made headlines when scientists found a previously unknown tree, the Nightcap oak, surviving in only a few small populations here.
Read the complete Nightcap National Park write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Nightcap National Park, about halfway. Next is back through Turtle Rock Environmental Park.
5. back through Turtle Rock Environmental Park
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Turtle Rock 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 Turtle Rock Environmental Park sits at 172 km, about halfway. Next is back through Mount Chinghee National Park.
6. back through Mount Chinghee National Park
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mount Chinghee 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 Mount Chinghee National Park comes up 215 km in. Next is Mount Barney National Park.
7. Mount Barney National Park
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mount Barney National Park write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Mount Barney National Park closes the day.
Leg by leg
Mount Barney National Park to Mount Chinghee National Park
Mount Barney National Park → Mount Chinghee National Park is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mount Chinghee National Park to Turtle Rock Environmental Park
Mount Chinghee National Park → Turtle Rock Environmental Park is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Turtle Rock Environmental Park to Nightcap National Park
Turtle Rock Environmental Park → Nightcap National Park is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Nightcap National Park to back through Turtle Rock Environmental Park
Nightcap National Park → back through Turtle Rock Environmental Park is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Turtle Rock Environmental Park to back through Mount Chinghee National Park
back through Turtle Rock Environmental Park → back through Mount Chinghee National Park is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mount Chinghee National Park to Mount Barney National Park
back through Mount Chinghee National Park → Mount Barney National Park is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.