CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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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477 km from Murwillumbah to Murwillumbah, about 8 h 12 of riding. It goes by way of Springbrook National Park, Lamington National Park, Telemon Environmental Park and back through Lamington National Park. The line favours views over speed.
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.
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Mount Warning National Park is where the day begins. Next is Springbrook National Park.
South of the Gold Coast, the land rises suddenly into a plateau of ancient rainforest, waterfalls and cliffs, and this is Springbrook. The plateau is about nine hundred metres high, and it is what remains of the huge Tweed shield volcano, which erupted some twenty-three million years ago and left a vast eroded caldera, with Mount Warning as its central plug. The rim of the caldera forms the Scenic Rim around it, and Springbrook's cliffs and gorges are part of that rim. It is part of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia, a World Heritage area, and its cool, wet forest is a startling contrast to the beaches and high-rises thirty minutes away.
Read the complete Springbrook National Park write-up.
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Springbrook National Park comes up about 85 km into the recorded legs. Next is 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.
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about 163 km into the recorded legs you reach Lamington National Park. Next is 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.
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Telemon Environmental Park, about halfway. Next is back through Lamington National Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Lamington National Park write-up.
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back through Lamington National Park sits at 317 km, about halfway. Next is back through Springbrook National Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Springbrook National Park write-up.
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back through Springbrook National Park comes up about 392 km into the recorded legs. Next is Mount Warning National Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mount Warning National Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Mount Warning National Park closes the day.
Mount Warning National Park → Springbrook National Park is 85 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Springbrook National Park → Lamington National Park is 78 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lamington National Park → Telemon Environmental Park is 75 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Telemon Environmental Park → back through Lamington National Park is 75 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Lamington National Park → back through Springbrook National Park is 78 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Springbrook National Park → Mount Warning National Park is 85 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.