Border Ranges

Border Ranges National Park is in New South Wales, but on the border with Queensland. There are a number of lookouts from the park over to Mount Warning

and towards Queensland (the Lost Forest which is the largest area of subtropical rainforest wilderness in Australia - it includes Lamington National Park).

The roads through the park are really nice - at one stage I was surrounded by butterflies for several kilometres. There are a number of walks, which explore different plant communities, and show the diversity of plant life in the park. Obviously not many people go on most of the paths as they were a bit overgrown, but maybe it's just that everything grows fast. I really enjoyed the park, and it was a pity that I couldn't do everything. You really need to stay there.

I visited Lions Road, which was created by the Lions clubs of Beaudesert and Kyogle to join the two communities. It goes through the park, and has a lookout overlooking the Border Loop Railway doing a complete circuit of a hill to increase its altitude by 30 metres to make the grade of the railway much smoother (the railway starts wide, goes through two tunnels in the hill, and crosses over itself to continue on to Brisbane). When it was completed in 1930 it allowed standard gauge interstate trains. One tunnel is actually built through the border between NSW and Queensland.