Let’s Drive QUEENSLAND
Melbourne – Goondiwindi to Yeppoon (total distance - 2035km)
LEICHHARDT Way Yeppoon
Coming from Melbourne, via Dubbo and Moree on the Newell Highway, you’ll enter Queensland and the start of the Leichhardt Way just before Goondiwindi, home of the champion racehorse of the 1970s, the ‘Goondiwindi Grey’, Gunsynd.
2035km
The Leichhardt Way follows the tracks of early explorer Ludwig Leichhardt. Next comes Moonie, site of Australia’s first commercial oil field, then Miles and its historical village. Further along the way you’ll visit Taroom with its 300-year-old Leichhardt Tree on which the intrepid explorer carved his initials. North of Taroom do take the short detour to the spectacular Isla Gorge National Park.
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