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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505 km from Tallebudgera Valley to Tallebudgera Valley, about 8 h 44 of riding. The stops in between: Lamington National Park, Telemon Environmental Park, Border Ranges National Park and back through Telemon Environmental Park. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 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 82 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 160 km into the recorded legs you reach Telemon Environmental Park. Next is Border Ranges National Park.
Twenty three million years ago a huge shield volcano stood over what is now the border between New South Wales and Queensland, and the Border Ranges are the remains of its northern and western rim. The volcano has long since eroded, leaving a vast caldera with the steep central plug of Wollumbin, also known as Mount Warning, rising in the middle, and a ring of cliffs and ridges around it covered in dense subtropical rainforest. The Border Ranges National Park protects a large part of that rim, and it is part of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia, a World Heritage Site that preserves forests whose ancestry goes back to the time when Australia was part of the supercontinent Gondwana.
Read the complete Border Ranges National Park write-up.
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Border Ranges National Park, about halfway. Next is back through Telemon Environmental Park.
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Read the complete Telemon Environmental Park write-up.
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back through Telemon Environmental Park sits at 336 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.
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back through Lamington National Park comes up about 427 km into the recorded legs. Next is Springbrook National Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Springbrook National Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Springbrook National Park closes the day.
Springbrook National Park → Lamington National Park is 82 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lamington National Park → Telemon Environmental Park is 78 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Telemon Environmental Park → Border Ranges National Park is 94 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Border Ranges National Park → back through Telemon Environmental Park is 94 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 78 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Lamington National Park → Springbrook National Park is 82 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.