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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.

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Getting there: 38 km north-west of Tenterfield via New England Highway northbound, cross the state border, continue through Wallangarra, turn right onto Pyramids Road
Website: parks.des.qld.gov.au (opens in a new tab)

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Listing from Wikivoyage: Tenterfield, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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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
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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.
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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.
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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