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Flooded gums, 2010 Cedar Creek Falls, 2011. The Witches Falls section, on the eastern side of Mount Tamborine village, became Queensland's first national park in 1908. [5] The main walk here is the Witches Falls Circuit (3 km (1.9 mi)) which snakes down a steep slope through closed in forest into rainforest with cycad groves, seasonal lagoons, enormous strangler figs and palm groves, en route ...
Tamborine Mountain, also simply known as Mount Tamborine, is a plateau, geographic subregion [2] and locality in the Scenic Rim Region of Queensland, Australia. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In the 2021 census , Tamborine Mountain had a population of 8,105 people.
The longest available walk is 24 kilometres (15 mi), about 8 hours walking time. Tamborine National Park covers 1,160 hectares (2,900 acres) of the Tamborine Mountain, a remnant of the once giant Tweed Volcano. Closer to the coast, although not technically part of the hinterland, is the Currumbin Valley Reserve.
The first wave of non-indigenous settlers on Tamborine Mountain in the 1870s and 1880s established walking and bridle tracks through the rainforest to reach their selections, where they cleared the land to grow bananas and fruit (and later dairy produce) for the Brisbane markets. Farmers used the same tracks to take their produce down to the ...
Green Mountain Valley The view from a lookout on the 19-kilometre (12 mi) long Ships Stern Circuit. The Lamington National Park is located on the northern side of the Tweed volcano. This large shield volcano is over 100 kilometres in diameter, and extends from Tamborine Mountain in the north to Lismore in the south.
O'Reilly is located on Queensland's border with New South Wales on the elevated Lamington Plateau.The plateau remains heavily vegetated by Gondwana Rainforests. [3]Almost the whole of the locality is within the Lamington National Park, except for the Boonyong pastoral property and the O'Reilly's Rainforest Retreat mountain resort
Tamborine–Nerang Road is a state-controlled district road (number 2050) rated as a local road of regional significance (LRRS). [9] [10] It runs from Tamborine Mountain Road in Tamborine Mountain to Beaudesert–Nerang Road in Clagiraba, a distance of 10.9 kilometres (6.8 mi) by a circuitous route to the east. [11]
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