Tenterfield

Bald Rock Campground and Picnic Area

Bald Rock National Park

Access to the Bald Rock Summit Walking Track, the Little Bald Rock Walking Track, and the Border Walking Track. Picnic tables, free gas/electric barbecues, wood barbecues (bring your own firewood), non-flush toilets, water must be boiled or treated before consumption, or better still bring your own. Camping: unpowered sites suitable for tens, campervans and caravans, no showers. No bins so take your rubbish with you. No pets, no smoking.

$8 per vehicle per day - see website for payment details. Camping - bookings required

Basket Swamp National Park

Enjoy 21 km of horse-riding trails (see https://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/things-to-do/horse-riding-trails/basket-swamp-horse-riding-trails here). Picnic tables at Timbarra Falls and at Woollool Woolloolni Aboriginal Area, but no other facilities. Walking trail to Timbarra Lookout - download a map here. Note that Woollool Woolloolni is a place of great significance to the indigenous people, so please treat the site respectfully - more information is available here.

Bluff Rock Viewpoint

A rest area with views of Bluff Rock. A monument commemorates the Aboriginal people killed in a massacre by European settlers in 1844 - more information is here. A closer viewpoint is at the turn-off to Bluff Creek Road, 1 km south on the right hand side - be mindful of the highway traffic. No access to the summit of Bluff Rock.

Boonoo Boonoo Falls Picnic Area

Boonoo Boonoo National Park

Starting point for the Boonoo Boonoo Falls Walking Track and the River Walk. The picnic area has pit toilets, free gas/electric barbecues, wood barbecues (bring your own firewood), drinking water (ought to be boiled or treated, or bring your own), no pets, no smoking. Ignore Google Maps driving instructions on how to get here!

$8 per vehicle per day - see website for payment details. Camping - bookings required

Centenary Cottage Museum

This museum complex houses the Cottage Museum, General Sir Harry Chauvel Gallery, Petrie Pioneer Cottage (a typical 1860s workers cottage), and various examples of historical machinery.

Fri Sat 10AM-3PM, 1st 2nd 3rd Sun of the month 10AM-3PM - closed Good Fri and Christmas Day

Currys Gap State Conservation Area

This conversation area at the base of Mount Mackenzie in order to preserve old-growth forests. It contains a water hole, a rock pool, and remains of The Common Aboriginal settlement (1930s-1980s). The reserve is closed to vehicles (gate is on Mount Mackenzie Road) but visitors are free to explore on foot - information signs on site. Good for birdwatching.

Free entry

F-111 Memorial

This memorial commemorates 2 Royal Australian Air Force pilots who died in a training flight crash here in 1987 involving a General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark strategic bomber.

Girraween National Park (Queensland)

Girraween National Park is well known for its massive granite outcrops, tors, and boulders, and wildflower displays in spring. Picnic areas and walking trails. Camping is permitted (fees apply) - see here for details. Download a National Park map here or a Discovery Guide here.

Mount Mackenzie Lookout

Mount Mackenzie Nature Reserve

Wide views of Tenterfield and the surrounding district. Picnic and barbecue facilities, bring your own water, pit toilets, no pets permitted. Bring binoculars and cameras.

Sir Henry Parkes Memorial School of Arts

A National Trust building that contains a significant collection of Sir Henry Parkes relics. In 1889 Sir Henry Parkes delivered a famous speech which re-energised the federation movement to create the country of Australia, bringing the then separate states together in a federation, which was achieved in 1901. The S.H.P. Memorial School of Arts was built to commemorate this with a now multi-functional building including a museum, cinema, cafe and community spaces.

Daily 10AM - 4PM·$7 adults, $5.50 concession, $3.50 children, $17 family

Sundown National Park (Queensland)

Sundown National Park is well known for its sharp ridges and steep gorges. There are opportunities for remote tracks and four-wheel-driving. Camping is permitted (fees apply) - see here for details. Download a National Park map here or a Discovery Guide here.

Tenterfield Cork Tree

A large cork tree, brought out from England as a seedling in a jam jar in 1861.

Tenterfield Railway Museum

A preserved railway precinct - the railway line joined Sydney to Brisbane in 1886 but the line closed almost 100 years later.

Wed-Sun 9AM-4PM - open every day during NSW school holidays

Tenterfield Saddlery

The Tenterfield Saddlery was classified by the National Trust of Australia in 1972. Peter Allen, singer and songwriter, has perpetuated the memory of George Woolnough in one of his best known songs "The Tenterfield Saddler".

Tue-Sun 9AM-1PM

Thunderbolt's Hideout

This secluded place was used by the bushranger Captain Thunderbolt (Fred Ward), it was large enough to keep his horses and the top of the rock was used as his lookout to spy for mail coaches going to and from the gold diggings in the district. 150 m walk from the road, not suitable for wheelchairs.

White Cottage Flower Farm

An English-style country garden, featurig camellias, perennials, wisterias, and roses. See what flowers are in the glass house, and visitors can pick their own posies.

Sat Sun 10AM-3PM