Why this ride
On the way it passes Gilbert State Forest, Main Range National Park and back through Gilbert State Forest. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Mount Clunie Flora Reserve and Main Range National Park
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 461 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 7 h 58
- 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. Mount Clunie Flora Reserve
On the border between New South Wales and Queensland, the McPherson Range rises steeply from the farmland, its forested slopes and cliffs marking the rim of an ancient volcanic landscape. Mount Clunie Flora Reserve protects a patch of rainforest on these slopes near Woodenbong, part of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia, a UNESCO site that preserves some of the oldest rainforests on earth. Here, in the cool upland forest, hoop pines and towering eucalypts mix with rainforest trees, and the forest floor is dense with ferns and mosses.
Read the complete Mount Clunie Flora Reserve write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Mount Clunie Flora Reserve is where the day begins. Next is Gilbert State Forest.
2. Gilbert State Forest
West of Brisbane, the Great Dividing Range rises as a dark wall above the plains, and Gilbert State Forest sits on its western slopes, where the rainforest of the escarpment gives way to drier eucalypt woodland and the farmland of the Darling Downs. To the east lies Main Range National Park, with its high peaks and steep cliffs; to the west, the land opens out towards Warwick and the wide grain fields beyond.
Read the complete Gilbert State Forest write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Gilbert State Forest comes up about 118 km into the recorded legs. Next is Main Range National Park.
3. Main Range National Park
The Main Range is the wall behind the Scenic Rim, a long line of old volcanic cliffs and ridges that runs along the border between south-east Queensland and New South Wales. It is what remains of a huge volcano that erupted more than twenty million years ago, and the rocks have been eroded into steep escarpments, gorges and waterfalls, with the high points, such as Mount Superbus, reaching nearly fourteen hundred metres. The national park protects dry eucalypt forest on the lower slopes and cool, damp rainforest higher up, with ancient Antarctic beech trees and giant tree ferns that belong to the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia, listed by UNESCO in 1986.
Read the complete Main Range National Park write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 232 km into the recorded legs you reach Main Range National Park. Next is back through Gilbert State Forest.
4. back through Gilbert State Forest
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Gilbert State Forest write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Gilbert State Forest, late in the day. Next is Mount Clunie Flora Reserve.
5. Mount Clunie Flora Reserve
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mount Clunie 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 Mount Clunie Flora Reserve. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Mount Clunie Flora Reserve to Gilbert State Forest
Mount Clunie Flora Reserve → Gilbert State Forest is 118 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gilbert State Forest to Main Range National Park
Gilbert State Forest → Main Range National Park is 114 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Main Range National Park to back through Gilbert State Forest
Main Range National Park → back through Gilbert State Forest is 114 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Gilbert State Forest to Mount Clunie Flora Reserve
back through Gilbert State Forest → Mount Clunie Flora Reserve is 118 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.