Northern Inland NSW GeoRegion

Touring Routes

Fossickers Way– which links the main fossicking locations and historic mining areas within the NE-NW region.

Although the route still has a website and is promoted by DNSW, the marketing group has ‘folded’.

Thunderbolts Way– connecting Gloucester and Inverell via Walcha and Uralla. It promotes the different

landscapes– above and below the escarpment.

Waterfall Way– links the New England Highway at Armidale to the Pacific Highway near Coffs Harbour and

features 11 waterfalls along the route, plus the Dorrigo, New England, Cathedral Rock and Oxley Wild Rivers

National Parks.

World Heritage Way– eastern section of the Gwydir Highway between Grafton and Glen Innes. It features the

World Heritage Listed Washpool and Gibraltar Range National Parks. The route is currently not marketed.

Nature’s Way (State Touring Route 3)– Links Narrabri and Inverell via Bingara, with the route continuing west

to the Pilliga bore baths and then south though the Pilliga Forest to the Warrumbungle National Park. Attractions

along this route include Sawn Rocks, Rocky Creek Glacial Area, Gwydir and Horton Rivers, Three Creeks Gold

Mine at Bingara and Copeton Dam.

Kamilaroi Highway– promoted as the ‘Great Divide to the Great Outback’ the route follows the Namoi– Barwon

– Darling River from Willow Tree on the New England Highway through to Bourke in outback NSW.

Newell Highway– interstate touring route linking Melbourne through to Goondiwindi via central NSW.