Why this ride
On the way it passes Burnett Creek State Forest, Lamington National Park and back through Burnett Creek State Forest. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Mount Mistake National Park and Lamington National Park
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 529 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 9 h 30
- 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.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
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. Mount Mistake National Park
Mount Mistake has a name that sounds like an apology. It stands in the Great Dividing Range in south-east Queensland, in rugged country west of Brisbane, and the national park around it protects steep slopes of dry eucalypt forest and a handful of rocky ridgelines. The mountain is not a famous summit, and the park is not set up for casual visitors: this is the kind of bush where the main facilities are the road, the sky and your own sense of direction.
Read the complete Mount Mistake National Park write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Mount Mistake National Park is where the day begins. Next is Burnett Creek State Forest.
2. Burnett Creek State Forest
In the Scenic Rim, southwest of Brisbane, Burnett Creek runs down from the slopes of the Main Range toward the farmland around Boonah, and the state forest that bears its name covers a stretch of steep, wooded hills where eucalypt forest gives way, in the moister gullies, to subtropical rainforest. This is the edge of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia, a UNESCO-listed collection of rainforest reserves along the Great Dividing Range in Queensland and New South Wales, including the Border Ranges and the Main Range national parks. The rainforests here are remnants of the forests that covered the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana, and they shelter plants and animals with lineages going back tens of millions of years.
Read the complete Burnett Creek State Forest write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Burnett Creek State Forest comes up about 137 km into the recorded legs. Next is Lamington National Park.
3. 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
about 262 km into the recorded legs you reach Lamington National Park. Next is back through Burnett Creek State Forest.
4. back through Burnett Creek State Forest
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Burnett Creek 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 Burnett Creek State Forest, late in the day. Next is Mount Mistake National Park.
5. Mount Mistake National Park
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mount Mistake National Park write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Mount Mistake National Park. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Mount Mistake National Park to Burnett Creek State Forest
Mount Mistake National Park → Burnett Creek State Forest is 137 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Burnett Creek State Forest to Lamington National Park
Burnett Creek State Forest → Lamington National Park is 125 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Lamington National Park to back through Burnett Creek State Forest
Lamington National Park → back through Burnett Creek State Forest is 130 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Burnett Creek State Forest to Mount Mistake National Park
back through Burnett Creek State Forest → Mount Mistake National Park is 137 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.