Why this ride
From Tallebudgera Valley it runs 225 km to Tallebudgera Valley; allow about 4 h 06 of riding. The stops in between: Amaroo Flora Reserve, Nightcap National Park and back through Amaroo Flora Reserve. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Turtle Rock Environmental Park and Nightcap National Park
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 225 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 4 h 06
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Turtle Rock Environmental Park
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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Turtle Rock Environmental Park is where the day begins. Next is Amaroo Flora Reserve.
2. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Amaroo Flora Reserve comes up about 34 km into the recorded legs. Next is Nightcap National Park.
3. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 112 km into the recorded legs you reach Nightcap National Park. Next is back through Amaroo Flora Reserve.
4. back through Amaroo Flora Reserve
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Amaroo Flora Reserve write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Amaroo Flora Reserve, late in the day. Next is Turtle Rock Environmental Park.
5. Turtle Rock Environmental Park
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Turtle Rock Environmental Park write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Turtle Rock Environmental Park. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Turtle Rock Environmental Park to Amaroo Flora Reserve
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 to Nightcap National Park
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 to back through Amaroo Flora Reserve
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 to Turtle Rock Environmental Park
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.