"Kyogle is on the rainforest's doorstep, Kyogle has numerous tourist attractions and lots of  entertainment and accommodation options."

Border Ranges | Brindle Creek | Lions Road | Mt Warning | The Pinnacle | Tooloom Falls | Toonumbar Dam

Mt. Warning

Mount Warning remains significant to Aboriginal people, providing a traditional mythology that extends back to the Dreamtime. Called `Wollumbin' meaning "fighting chief of the mountains" the Aboriginal people believed that the lightning and thunder observed on the mountain were warring warriors and that landslides were wounds obtained in battle.

The mountain which reaches a height on its summit of 1157 metres was named by Captain Cook to warn future mariners of the offshore reefs he encountered in May 1770. Mount Warning was dedicated as a natural park in 1966. Inclusion in the UNESCO World heritage Listings in 1986.

Summit Track

Winding upwards from the Breakfast Creek parking area is the Mount Warning summit track, which passes through a variety of vegetation communities. Subtropical and temperate rainforest, wet sclerophyll forest and heath shrubland are all encountered in your journey upward. After a final rock scramble the track emerges to 360 degrees views reaching every distant horizon.

Evident from this area is the enormous eroded bowl of the caldera landform. Twenty million years ago the height of the volcano was twice the present height of Mount Warning. This volcano was formed by massive outpourings of lava, layer after layer over a landscape that stretched from Mt Tamborine in the north to Lismore in the south. Westward it extended to Kyogle and its eastern remnants occur as reefs at Point Danger.

The walk goes for a duration of 4-5 hours return. Degree of difficulty is Strenuous.

Lyrebird Track

A shorter walk catering for the less energetic, the lyrebird track crosses Breakfast Creek before winding some 200m through palm forest to a platform set amongst the lush tropical rainforest.

Plant and Animal Refuge

The ancient forests that occur here are a window into the past. Among the multitude of tree species and giant stinging trees, figs, booyongs, carabeens, brush box and flame trees. Many threatened species are found here.

A variety of birds, mammals and reptiles may be seen by the observant walker in the Mount Warning National Park. Birds are abundant, over 100 species have been recorder including the rare and endangered rufous scrub bird, wompoo pigeon, marbled frogmouth and Albert's lyrebird.