Murrurundi - Timor - Gundy – Scone -
Towarri NAtIONAL. PARK
– Wingen – Burning Mountain – Murrurundi
Self
Drive Touring Route
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135 km
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Driving time: 2
hrs 20 mins |
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Historic Rural Towns, Villages and Homesteads
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Horse
Studs
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Pastoral
Scenery
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Picturesque river valleys
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National Parks,
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Burning Mountain
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Wildlife (sightings possible along much of the drive)
(some
30km of gravel roads but suitable for all vehicles)
Click here
to print off
the 2 page A4 flyer of this drive
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×Murrurundi |
0 km |
Historic railway town. The end of the rail line until the tunnel
through the Great Dividing Range was opened in 1887 , taking
rail access to all the towns and the vast grain and wool growing
areas of the Liverpool Plains and north west slopes and plains
of New South Wales, as well as rail access to Brisbane.
Murrurundi VIC has information about local history.
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Travel south on the New England Highway, past Emirates Park
Stud to |
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×Blandford
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6 km |
Tiny
village on the Pages River.
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Timor Rd (turnoff opposite school) passes through horse studs
and grazing properties to |
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×Timor
/Waverly
Roads
T-intersection |
27
km |
ØTurn
right
(for short detour to Timor Caves turn left)
There are 4 km tar, 23km gravel and then back onto the tar.
Waverly Road follows the Isis Valley past historic Waverley
Station, horse studs and Waverly Polo Fields to |
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×Hunter
Rd
T-intersection |
57
km |
ØTurn
right.
(
note 0.5km on right across river is the historic homestead of
Elmswood)
ØContinue
to |
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×Gundy |
61
km |
Small rural village with toilet faculties, Gundy General
Store and a pub.
ØContinue
on along Pages River past more horse studs and the rich
lucerne flats of Segenhoe
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Detour |
72km |
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Lake Glenbawn
Picnic area, toilets, kiosk
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16km detour
via Segenhoe Rd / Glenbawn Rd and return
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24
km circuit detour
past horse studs and over the old suspension bridge; via
Segenhoe Rd / Glenbawn Rd / Allan Bridge Rd/ Segenhoe Road /
Glenbawn Rd to Gundy Rd
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31km circuit detour
past horse studs and the small town of Aberdeen; via Segenhoe
Rd / Glenbawn Rd / Rouchel Rd and New England Highway back to
Scone |
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×Scone |
80
km |
Prosperous country town with all amenities
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Turn right at intersection with New England Highway.
(Turn left to travel on down the Hunter Valley to Aberdeen /
Muswellbrook / Singleton)
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At the roundabout turn left towards Merriwa.
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At next roundabout turn right onto
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×Middlebrook
Road |
81.3
km |
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Which follows Middlebrook upstream, passing grazing properties
and horse studs to the sandstone escarpments of |
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×Towarri
Nat.
Park
camping area |
99
km |
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BBQ’s, picnic area, toilets, space.
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Further along Middlebrook Road are the |
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Washpools
picnic area |
100.5
km |
Washpools - long narrow rock pools where sheep used to be
washed before shearing |
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ØRe-trace
about 4.5km back along Middlebrook Rd and turn left onto |
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Cressfield
Road |
105
km |
Turn
left again at the New England Highway T-.intersection for
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×Wingen |
112 km |
Rural village with hotel, antique shop, and café and the
backdrop of the Wingen Maid rock formation.
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Continue along the New England Highway to |
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×
Burning
Mountain
Nature Reserve
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113
km
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Picnic area, toilets, short walk to viewing platform,
explanatory notes
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Continue along the New England Highway to return to
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×Murrurundi |
135
km |
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PHOTOS
Craigmhor Enterprises, NPWS, David Carter |
