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Waterfall Way boasts spectacular waterfalls, gorges, world-heritage national parks, cool-climate vineyards and a fascinating and diverse cultural heritage. When you visit, you’ll create your own stories, but before you visit, be inspired by some of ours…
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Tattersalls Hotel Armidale
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Loloma Bed & Breakfast, Armidale
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Wild Swimming
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Exploring the Arts
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Exploring National Parks around Armidale
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Dangar Falls Reserve
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Dangar Falls Reserve is renowned for the Dangar Falls – a 30-meter waterfall that is viewable from the newly upgraded accessible viewing platform. Alternatively, you can get up close and personal at the base of the falls via a 10-minute walk along a newly renovated pathway. But this is not...
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Sail Urunga
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Sail Urunga’s “Discover Sailing Adventure” is open to people of most abilities and is approximately a three-hour sailing adventure from Urunga to Mylestom Village and back. It is provided without the technical detail of an accredited sailing course and is an ideal way for you and your friends or family...
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Urunga Boardwalk
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The Urunga boardwalk is one of the most iconic places that people visit when they come to the Bellingen Shire and Coffs Coast. Starting at the Urunga lagoon, otherwise known as the ‘lido’, and stretching 1.2 kilometres along the river to the coastline, you can see all sorts of wildlife...
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Unspoilt Views of Cathedral Rocks National Park
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The view from the top of Cathedral Rocks is pretty awe-inspiring! Here’s everything you need to know about wandering amongst prehistoric rock formations in Cathedral Rock National Park. Highlights Spectacular 360° views No safety rails to spoil views Plenty of off-trail nooks and crannies to discover Exploring Cathedral Rock National...
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Wild Swimming
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Looking for a beautiful spot to cool off after exploring the national parks along the Waterfall Way? Well these picturesque swimming locations are sure to be worthy of an Instagram post or two? First stop Gara Gorge, or otherwise referred to by the locals as the Blue Hole. Gara Gorge...
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Petersons Guesthouse & Winery, Armidale
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Meander 10 minutes south of Armidale on Dangarsleigh Road and you’ll arrive at a long, tree-lined driveway whose reverence hints at the grand residence atop the hill. The 100-year-old homestead emerges from the trees as you follow the circular driveway up to the stately porte cochere and step out onto...
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Waterfall Helicopter Adventures
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For an exhilarating ride soaring through nature, the gorges surrounding Armidale are best experienced by helicopter. My heart skips a beat as we descend into a gaping chasm in the earth; Dangars Gorge, whose sheer cliffs guard a lush, meandering valley below. Far below, as the butterflies in my stomach...
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Georges Junction – A 4WD Getaway along the Mighty Macleay River
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Happily lose your perspective on the grassy banks of NSW’s Georges Junction: only 4WDers need apply. At the base of the Great Dividing Range, 80 km east of Armidale and 90km west of Kempsey – home to the Akubra and near Nulla Nulla where Slim Dusty was born – lies...
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Natural Wonders & Gorgeous Gorges in New England High Country
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Imagine a place where you can climb giant granite rock formations, stroll through rainforests, encounter rare wildlife, watch powerful waterfalls, camp in the wilderness, paddle wild rivers and take in breathtaking views from one of the tallest points of the Great Dividing Range. This is all part of the New...
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Exploring Waterfalls in new England high Country
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The Waterfall Way is one of the main arteries into New England from the east, and it’s aptly named. Weaving through a number of the high country’s world-class national parks, this road promises to defy the advice of 90s pop culture and instead go chasing waterfalls. Here’s our pick of...
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Exploring National Parks around Armidale
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In the depths of winter, mist can drape New England National Park like a chiffon veil, settling silently in the valleys and lingering for hours. Moss-covered Antarctic beech, which have thrived on the Great Dividing Range for aeons, assume a ghostly appearance on such mornings – and deep within the...
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