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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319 km from Kooralbyn to Kooralbyn, about 5 h 31 of riding. The stops in between: Mount Chinghee National Park, Limpinwood Nature Reserve and back through Mount Chinghee National Park. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 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 about 69 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 161 km into the recorded legs you reach Limpinwood Nature Reserve. Next is back through Mount Chinghee National Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mount Chinghee National Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Mount Chinghee National Park, late in the day. Next is Telemon Environmental Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Telemon Environmental Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Telemon Environmental Park. That is the ride.
Telemon Environmental Park → Mount Chinghee National Park is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mount Chinghee National Park → Limpinwood Nature Reserve is 92 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Limpinwood Nature Reserve → back through Mount Chinghee National Park is 92 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mount Chinghee National Park → Telemon Environmental Park is 69 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.