The visitor centre in Kingaroy is called the South Burnett Visitor Information Centre. Address: 128 Haly St, Kingaroy, Queensland. Website: https://www.discoversouthburnett.com.au/ Phone: 07 4189 9555 Email: tourism@sbrc.qld.gov.au Nearby Brown Signs Bora Ring – The Coolabunia Bora Ring is one of two raised embankment rings used in Aboriginal boyhood to manhood ceremonies Gordonbrook Dam – the water … Read more
Cobb & Co Museum is located in Toowoomba with displays from the horse-drawn era. Not just Cobb & Co carriages, the collection includes farming wagons, delivery carts, and the landau, the Rolls Royce of Carriages. It is fitting that the Cobb & Co Museum represents the end of the Cobb & Co Tourist Drive , … Read more
The Toowoomba Historical Society, established in 1949, is a research facility preserving and promoting the history and heritage of Toowoomba. It is located at Queen’s Park Gardens in Toowoomba, next to the entrance archway to the gardens. To Get There Links https://www.toowoombahistory.org.au/
Queens Park is a heritage-listed botanic garden in East Toowoomba and one of the main gardens in the annual Carnival of Flowers. Originally a public reserve gazetted in 1869, the building of the botanic gardens and Queens Park where established separately from the 1870s. The gardens continually evolved through to the 1970s. To Get There
Mount Kynoch Lookout is on the approach to Toowoomba heading south along the New England Highway. It has views looking over the valley below and to the south-east towards Brisbane and Gold Coast. The area is named after a well-respected former councillor of the Highfields Shire Council, John Kynoch. He was a member for 30 … Read more
The Spring Bluff Railway Station is on the main railway between Ipswich and Toowoomba. It is well known for its beautiful gardens and participation in Toowoomba’s Carnival of Flowers held in September each year. Following the Cobb & Co Tourist Drive from Ipswich, it is the first gardens in the Carnival of Flowers. In contrast, … Read more
The Big Orange is a fruit and vegetable shop west of Brisbane near Gatton. The Big Orange sits on top of the shop of the same name. The Crowley Vale Big Orange is the smaller of the Big Oranges across the country and not as accessible as some. The Big Orange in Gayndah is one … Read more
Cunningham’s Crest Scenic Lookout, following the brown signs from Laidley, offers a panoramic view over the Lockyer Valley and through to Cunningham’s Gap. It’s name comes from Allan Cunningham whose party stood in 1829 and named the Laidley Plains below. The historical site Cunningham’s Lookout was similarly named on his trek towards finding a passage … Read more
Das Neumann Haus is a house museum in the country town of Laidley. Built in 1893 by German immigrant Hermann Newmann, it has been refurnished in the style of the 1930s. Hermann Newmann migrated with his parents and brother in 1884, meeting his wife Annie in Ipswich in 1885. Annie Schermuly, of English and German … Read more
Laidley Pioneer Village and Museum was established in 1972, it is Queensland’s first heritage village style museums. Get the feel of rural life from the early 1800’s in Queensland. The Laidley District Historical Society have developed a village complex with a good insight into what life was like. Laidley was the first stop by coach … Read more
