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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From Tallebudgera Valley it runs 78 km to Tallebudgera Valley; allow about 1 h 21 of riding. The stops in between: Limpinwood Nature Reserve, Mount Warning National Park and back through Limpinwood Nature Reserve. 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 Limpinwood Nature Reserve.
Twenty-odd million years ago, a huge shield volcano stood where the Tweed valley is now, on what became the border between New South Wales and Queensland. Erosion has since carved out its centre, leaving one of the largest erosion calderas in the world, a vast bowl of green farmland ringed by cliffs and ridges, with the volcano's old central plug, Wollumbin, also known as Mount Warning, standing in the middle. Limpinwood Nature Reserve, on the northern rim of the caldera, protects a stretch of subtropical rainforest that is part of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site preserving forests whose lineage goes back to the ancient supercontinent.
Read the complete Limpinwood Nature Reserve write-up.
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Limpinwood Nature Reserve comes up about 20 km into the recorded legs. Next is Mount Warning National Park.
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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about 39 km into the recorded legs you reach Mount Warning National Park. Next is back through Limpinwood Nature Reserve.
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Read the complete Limpinwood Nature Reserve write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Limpinwood Nature Reserve, late in the day. 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.
Back at Springbrook National Park. That is the ride.
Springbrook National Park → Limpinwood Nature Reserve is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Limpinwood Nature Reserve → Mount Warning National Park is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mount Warning National Park → back through Limpinwood Nature Reserve is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Limpinwood Nature Reserve → Springbrook National Park is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.