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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438 km from Tallebudgera Valley to Tallebudgera Valley, about 7 h 33 of riding. The stops in between: Lamington National Park, Telemon Environmental Park, Cronan Creek State Forest and back through Telemon Environmental Park. Much of it runs through woodland.
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.
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Numinbah Nature Reserve is where the day begins. 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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Lamington National Park comes up about 66 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 127 km into the recorded legs you reach Telemon Environmental Park. Next is Cronan Creek State Forest.
Cronan Creek runs off the slopes of Mount Barney, one of the great peaks of the Scenic Rim, the arc of mountains along the Queensland and New South Wales border southwest of Brisbane. Mount Barney rises to over thirteen hundred metres, a rugged mass of volcanic rock covered in eucalyptus forest, with rainforest in the gullies and heathland near the summit, and it is the most challenging climb in southeast Queensland. The creek valley below is quiet and lovely, with clear water running over rocks, tall gums and grassy flats where wallabies graze at dusk.
Read the complete Cronan Creek State Forest write-up.
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Cronan Creek State Forest, about halfway. Next is back through Telemon Environmental Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Telemon Environmental Park write-up.
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back through Telemon Environmental Park sits at 292 km, about halfway. Next is back through Lamington National Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Lamington National Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Lamington National Park comes up about 372 km into the recorded legs. Next is Numinbah Nature Reserve.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Numinbah Nature Reserve write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Numinbah Nature Reserve closes the day.
Numinbah Nature Reserve → Lamington National Park is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lamington National Park → Telemon Environmental Park is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Telemon Environmental Park → Cronan Creek State Forest is 92 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Cronan Creek State Forest → back through Telemon Environmental Park is 92 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Telemon Environmental Park → back through Lamington National Park is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Lamington National Park → Numinbah Nature Reserve is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.