WINGEN

LOCATION

CLIMATE

Spring and Autumn are pleasant sunny days and cool nights.

Winter is brisk and invigorating with frosty mornings.

Summer has hot days with long pleasant evenings once the sun goes down

FACILITIES

THINGS TO DO    -   PLACES TO SEE

                              IN  WINGEN

Towarri National Park

 This National Park was declared in 1998 and is a most interesting area for bushwalkers.

Towarri with Wingen Maid and Cedar Brush, cover a rugged part of the Liverpool range.

They are at the junction of three diverse regions and contain an amazing variety of landforms, plants and wildlife.

The Wingen Maid

 A rocky outcrop just south of Wingen in the Towarri National Park it can be seen clearly form the highway.

It is the southern face of a mountain spur with the upper part of the cliff resembling the outline of a seated woman facing south, holding a small bunch of flowers to her breast.

Aboriginal mythology says that the maid cried tears of fire when her warrior husband did not return from battle. She was turned to stone and her tears set the mountain afire (Burning Mountain).

Burning Mountain

Early explorers assumed Burning Mountain’s billowing smoke and peak of grey, smouldering ash was an active volcano.

In fact, the mountain’s naturally-burning coal seam, unique in Australia, is thought to have been smoking away for over 5500 years. After a pleasant walk you can look down from the viewing platform into the vents where the smoke emerges.

Burning Mountain, officially known as Wingen Mountain, is believed to have been naturally ignited.

The smouldering fire is slowly burning through a thick coal seam about 30 metres below the surface.

It is a reasonable walk from the car park to the burning mountain viewing platform but the track is well signposted and walking shoes are recommended.

FESTIVALS    &     EVENTS

Events