Kainas wrote:I would love to write my own favourite walks list here...but I haven't been on any. Okay I did go on a 3day hike once, but I don't even know where it was (near Maroon I think).
I do have 3 very empty weeks to fill in January. Suggestions?
Hi Kainas,
Are you looking for multi-day options or just day trips? I've only had one trip to SE QLD with any bushwalking involved, which was in mid-2007 and limited to day trips. I don't cope well with really hot weather and couldn't imagine walking in too many QLD locations in mid-summer. I suggest looking at the Gold Coast hinterland area as a starting point. We spent a few nights at Binnaburra Lodge next to Lamington NP and did the following walks which were all nice:
Ships Stern circuit (fairly solid day's effort...which we underestimated and finished in the dark by headtorch)
Tullawallal circuit
Daves Creek circuit
Caves circuit
You could have a base camp there and do these (and other) walks. I know that people sometimes do an overnight trip from Binnaburra to O'Reillys and back. Note: If it's wet you will get a
lot of leeches on some of these tracks.
Others were the Warrie Circuit and Twin Falls track in Springbrook NP, these were also good but Warrie appears to be closed at present due to landslips.
For info see
http://www.epa.qld.gov.au/parks_and_forests/find_a_park_or_forest/lamington_national_park/. From there you can navigate to find quite a bit of information about other nearby options.
Also visited Main Range and Moogerah Peaks NPs taking the following walks. All were interesting but I don't know about doing them in January:
Mt Cordeaux track/Bare Rock track/Morgan's Walk/Palm Grove circuit
Mt Mathieson and Heritage trails
Mt Edwards summit
...and Glasshouse Mtns (same comments as above).
I know there are overnight and multi-day options in SE QLD if you want longer trips but haven't done any of those. We mostly used Jon and Lyn Daly's "Take a Walk in Queensland's National Parks - Southern Zone" book for research and track notes. Looks like they have a new version coming out in Jan.