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: producer-declared routed record.
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A 454 km round trip from Tallebudgera Valley - roughly 7 h 45 in the saddle. On the way it passes Amaroo Flora Reserve, Nightcap National Park, Cronan Creek State Forest and back through Nightcap National Park. Much of it runs through woodland.
The Gold Coast hinterland is the green wall behind the beaches and high-rises of southern Queensland, and it is a steep, wet, forested country of ridges, gorges and waterfalls that climbs toward the New South Wales border. The nearby ranges belong to the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia, a UNESCO site said to protect the largest area of subtropical rainforest in the world.
Read the complete Turtle Rock Environmental Park write-up.
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Turtle Rock Environmental Park is where the day begins. Next is Amaroo Flora Reserve.
Behind the coast of northern New South Wales, the Tweed valley sits inside the remains of an enormous shield volcano that erupted some twenty-odd million years ago. Erosion has carved away the centre, leaving a huge caldera, one of the largest in the world, with the steep, forested walls of the Border Ranges and the McPherson Range curving around it and the volcanic plug of Wollumbin, also known as Mount Warning, rising in the middle. The Amaroo Flora Reserve lies on the slopes of this landscape, part of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia, a UNESCO site of scattered reserves along the Great Dividing Range.
Read the complete Amaroo Flora Reserve write-up.
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Amaroo Flora Reserve comes up about 34 km into the recorded legs. Next is Nightcap National Park.
Nightcap National Park covers a high, wet plateau and escarpment north of Lismore in New South Wales, the remains of the rim of an ancient volcano centred on Wollumbin, Mount Warning, whose eroded caldera forms one of the largest in the world. The plateau receives some of the highest rainfall in the state, and it is covered in subtropical rainforest, tall eucalypt forest and dramatic waterfalls, including Minyon Falls, which drops about a hundred metres over a cliff of volcanic rock. Nightcap is one of the Gondwana Rainforests reserves, and in 2000 it made headlines when scientists found a previously unknown tree, the Nightcap oak, surviving in only a few small populations here.
Read the complete Nightcap National Park write-up.
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about 112 km into the recorded legs you reach Nightcap National 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 Nightcap National Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Nightcap National Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Nightcap National Park sits at 183 km, about halfway. Next is back through Amaroo Flora Reserve.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Amaroo Flora Reserve write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Amaroo Flora Reserve comes up about 419 km into the recorded legs. Next is Turtle Rock Environmental Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Turtle Rock Environmental Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Turtle Rock Environmental Park closes the day.
Turtle Rock Environmental Park → Amaroo Flora Reserve is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Amaroo Flora Reserve → Nightcap National Park is 78 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Nightcap National Park → Cronan Creek State Forest is 110 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Cronan Creek State Forest → back through Nightcap National Park is 119 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Nightcap National Park → back through Amaroo Flora Reserve is 78 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Amaroo Flora Reserve → Turtle Rock Environmental Park is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.