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Border Ranges | Brindle
Creek | Lions Road | Mt
Warning | The Pinnacle | Tooloom
Falls | Toonumbar Dam
Border Ranges National
Park
Border Ranges
National Park is a monument of earth's living beauty. The ranges continue to
reward visitors with mountainous views, untouched forests, ancient trees,
wildlife, waterfalls and pure creeks.
World Heritage listed as
part of the `Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves of Australia' the park protects
areas of wilderness encompassing parts of the largest subtropical rainforests in
Australia. An outstanding number of plant and animal species are endemic to the
ranges and many depend on the rainforests for their survival.
The Tweed Range scenic
drive is a 60klm all weather gravel road crossing the eastern plateau of the
park. Much of its way follows the caldera edge of the eroded Mount
Warning volcano, providing incomparable views. Mount Warning dominates the
scene with attendant spires, crags and precipices revealed, backed by the blue
of the pacific fading to the horizon.
The drive can be completed
in 4-5 hours, allowing for a leisurely pace with stops to enjoy views, strolls
in the rainforest and picnic breaks. Due to the steep roads, caravans and busses
must be left at Sheepstation Creek Rest Area.
Blackbutts Picnic Area
provides an impressive outlook to the caldera and Mount Warning. Lying before
you are the eroded remains of a huge shield volcano that covered the landscape
from Mount Tamborine in QLD to Lismore in NSW. Twenty million years of corrosion
carved out the caldera, with Mount Warning the remaining central core.
Bar Mountain Picnic Area
is situated high on the caldera rim in the misty realm of ancient Antarctic
Beech forest. Short walks lead you amongst the mossy beech trees, giant and
gnarled with age. A longer walk continues to the western edge of Bar Mountain
where a lookout provides a view sweeping to the mountainous peaks of Queensland.
Location and access, as
it's name suggests, the park is nestled along the NSW/QLD border north of Kyogle
and west of Murwillumbah. The park has two points of entry, one at the Barkers
Vale turn-off on the Murwillumbah-Kyogle road and the other at Wiangaree on the
Summerland Way just North of Kyogle.
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