"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

Tooloom Falls

Tooloom falls are located next to Tooloom National park which is located in far north-eastern New South Wales. They provide a relaxing place to swim and inter react with the environment.

Vehicle access to Tooloom National Park is sealed road. The park is 1.5 hours drive from Kyogle.

World Heritage

The park encompasses Tooloom Scrub an internationally significant rain forest community which has been recognised and listed as part of the World Heritage `Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves of Australia.' The Tooloom scrub contains outstanding sub-tropical and dry forest which support an incredible diversity of macropods and other mammals.

Aboriginal Significance

Tooloom National Park is named from the landmark of Tooloom Falls. The local aboriginal people recognise Tooloom as Dooloomi. Dooloomi is a reference to the Gidabal word for headlice, dooloom.

Aboriginal sites have been identified in the Wallaby Creek area including stone implements and holes in basalt screes where yams were dug.

Geology and Vegetation

The soils of the park are derived from basalt rocks that overlay older sedimentary rocks. These basalt rocks originated from the Focal Peak volcanic system to the north and influence the vegetation of the park.

The vegetation changes dramatically from the forest red gum dominated forests of the valley floor through moist eucalypt forests to extensive black booyong dominated rainforest on the plateau. Protected sites on the plateau allow the beautiful yellow carabeen to dominate whilst dry rainforest occurs as pockets in the Wallaby Creek Valley.

Important Habitat for Endangered Fauna

The forest mosaic that exists in Tooloom provides critical habitat for a wide range of fauna, with the highest diversity of macropods in Australia recorded here. Endangered species such as the black striped wallaby, long nosed potoroo, rufous bettong and red-legged pademelon find refuge in Tooloom.

Areas of the park are extensively utilised for the scientific research of kangaroo and wallaby populations.

The sub tropical rainforest of Tooloom provide habitat for endangered bird species including the powerful owl, masked owl, red goshawk, marbled frogmouth and Albert's lyrebird.