CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 564 km round trip from Tallebudgera Valley - roughly 10 h 23 in the saddle. On the way it passes Mount Chinghee National Park, Mount Barney National Park, Gambubal State Forest and back through Mount Barney National Park. Much of it runs through woodland.
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 Mount Chinghee National Park.
Mount Chinghee is one of those small national parks that most people drive past without noticing, which is a shame, because it guards a beautiful pocket of the border ranges. It lies near the head of the Albert River valley south of Beaudesert, close to the Queensland and New South Wales border, and like its neighbours it forms part of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage area. The trees here are the same subtropical rainforest types that once covered much of the old southern supercontinent, hanging on in the wetter folds of the ranges.
Read the complete Mount Chinghee National Park write-up.
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Mount Chinghee National Park comes up 42 km in. Next is Mount Barney National Park.
Mount Barney looks like it was put there to be argued about. The rugged double summit rises to around 1,350 metres, the second-highest peak in south-east Queensland, and its bare rhyolite crags stand out above the softer farmland of the Scenic Rim like a fortress somebody forgot to finish. Geologists will tell you it is the eroded core of an ancient volcanic system; locals will tell you it has humbled plenty of overconfident walkers. Either way, it is part of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage area, which stretches along the border ranges between Queensland and New South Wales.
Read the complete Mount Barney National Park write-up.
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84 km in you reach Mount Barney National Park. Next is Gambubal State Forest.
Gambubal State Forest clings to the western side of the Great Dividing Range in southern Queensland, close to the New South Wales border, in country that drops from rainforest-clad ridges down to the grazing land around Killarney and Warwick. The forest adjoins Main Range National Park and belongs to the wider belt of subtropical and temperate rainforest protected as part of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia. Hoop pine, ancient Antarctic beech on the highest ridges, tree ferns and strangler figs give it a feel of deep time, and it is one of the cooler corners of Queensland in summer.
Read the complete Gambubal State Forest write-up.
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Gambubal State Forest, about halfway. Next is back through Mount Barney National Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mount Barney National Park write-up.
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back through Mount Barney National Park sits at 168 km, about halfway. Next is back through Mount Chinghee National Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mount Chinghee National Park write-up.
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back through Mount Chinghee National Park comes up 210 km in. 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 → Mount Chinghee National Park is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mount Chinghee National Park → Mount Barney National Park is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mount Barney National Park → Gambubal State Forest is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gambubal State Forest → back through Mount Barney National Park is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mount Barney National Park → back through Mount Chinghee National Park is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mount Chinghee National Park → Springbrook National Park is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.