NOTE...a public toilet is located here at the picnic grounds, aswell as some tables and wood fired bbq’s.
Signboards here should explain the location. Follow the walking track to the right of the toilet block down to the cemetery, it’s an easy 260 mtr return walk. Take note of the brass and copper tacks used to make the inscriptions in the concrete of the cairn.
0.1 klms Turn left out of carpark back onto main road 38.9 klms
1.5 klms Moss’s Well...park car on LHS of track and do the short 120 mtr return
walk to the well. Signboards here should explain the well. Continue on along track after viewing well. 40.4 klms
0.5 klms Governors Chair Lookout carpark area.... Park vehicle and do short 300 mtr return walk to viewing area up the stairs located on lefthand side here 40.9 klms
WARNING....THERE IS NO HANDRAILS AT THIS LOCATION AND
VERTICAL CLIFF FACES TO FALL OFF OF. KEEP AN EYE ON CHILDREN
HERE!!!
On returning to your vehicle from the lookout, you now have the option
of doing a 3.2 klm return walk along the now closed section of Spicers
Gap Road. This road contains “rare examples of nineteenth century road
building techniques”. If you plan to do both the Governors Chair Lookout and Condamine Gorge drive in the same day, due to time reasons it is probably best to leave this walk for another visit though.
Once back at your vehicle this is your turn around point, so head back
down the range on the road you came up on.
4.1klms Road turns to bitumen 45.0 klms
0.2 klms Road turns to gravel 45.2 klms
1.7 klms Road turns to bitumen – continue straight on 46.9 klms
2.6 klms Turn right onto Lake Moogerah Rd 49.5 klms
3.2 klms Road turns to gravel 52.7 klms
2.2 klms Road turns to bitumen 54.9 klms
0.4 klms Turn right onto Croftby Rd 55.3 klms
0.0 klms ZERO TRIP METRE HERE ON CROFTBY RD 0.0 klms
0.3 klms Road turns to gravel 0.3 klms
1.8 klms Grid 2.1 klms
1.3 klms Grid 3.4 klms
2.4 klms Grid 5.8 klms
4.8 klms Road turns to bitumen 10.6 klms
0.3 klms Turn right onto Carney Creek Rd 10.9 klms
5.3 klms Turn right onto The Head Rd 16.2 klms
2.3 klms Grid 18.5 klms
1.2 klms Grid 19.7 klms
0.4 klms Grid 20.1 klms
3.1 klms Grid 23.2 klms
5.9 klms Tiviot Falls Lookout 29.1 klms
Park vehicle here on road side and then look straight across the valley (slightly to your left) to view the falls. If there’s been no recent rain then not a lot of water comes over the falls, and it can be a touch hard to see at times. The falls descend 38 metres from the McPherson Range near Wilsons Peak. Wilsons Peak stands at 1230m in height and marks the intersection of the Great Dividing Range with the McPherson Range i n the Scenic Rim region. The Queensland and New South Wales border fence also leads up the middle of it.
Once you have viewed Teviot Falls, continue on in the same direction up the road you were driving on, crossing over the grid as you leave.
5.8 klms Grid – Continue straight on 34.9 klms
0.7 klms Keep right (sign Cambanoora Gorge).... Road turns to gravel 35.6 klms
NOTE...You are now driving the Condamine Gorge Road, also know as the 14 River Crossings Rd, but these days called Cambanoora Gorge. Originally the road through the gorge was used to carry supplies and mail to early settlers along the length of the gorge, and to bring timber to the railway in Killarney, but these days it is a well maintained gravel rd popular with 4wder’s due to the fact it crosses the Condamine River 14 times as you drive along it.
2.0 klms Grid 37.6 klms
2.6 klms Beware of cattle on roadside 40.2 klms
5.4 klms Grid 45.6 klms
5.5 klms Road turns to bitumen 51.1 klms
1.5 klms Turn right onto Condamine River Rd (sign Killarney) 52.6 klms
3.2 klms Turn left onto Willow St 55.8 klms
0.3 klms Killarney Hotel on you left hand side 56.1 klms
NOTE...The pub in Killarney Hotel does meals daily, and the Foodworks store in Ivy St has a small bakery in it if you want pies and sausage rolls etc. There’s also a coffee shop just across the road from the Killarney Hotel, and a takeaway store on your left hand side a short drive down the road as you head out of town towards Queen Mary Falls. If no need to buy a meal here, you might prefer to use the picnic grounds located a short distance further on at Queen Mary Falls carpark area, there are bbq’s and toilet facilities located here also.
0.0 klms ZERO TRIP METRE OUTSIDE HOTEL ON MAIN STREET 0.0 klms
0.2 klms Head out of town along main street towards Queen Mary Falls direction,
and cross The Condamine River at Ellen Backhouse Bridge 0.2 klms
3.7 klms Turn left into Spring Creek Rd / The Falls Drive 3.9 klms
2.4 klms Browns Falls on left...a walk from the car park area here is required to
be done to view these falls – sign in car park advises 600mtrs 20 mins ( you need
to clamber over rocks as you go) 6.3 klms
1.0 klms Daggs Falls on left... a viewing platform is located at the car park area
here and gives good views of the falls below 7.4 klms
3.2 klms Continue on up the road you were on, Queen Mary Falls car park area on
left. Park vehicle here and do walk to falls, there’s quite a few stairs to
negotiate along the way (easiest route is to do loop walk in a clockwise direction, look for the track to left of picnic area). 10.5 klms
*NOTE...Queen Mary Falls has toilets and a picnic area here. There are wood fired bbq’s available for your use aswell as numerous picnic tables also. There is a cafe located just across the road from the car park area aswell that has bright colourful birds (Rosellas and Lorikeets etc) coming in at times for feeding.
