Qantas Founders Outback Museum
Outback Queensland
Qantas Founders Outback Museum houses a life-size replica of an Avro 504K, the first aircraft owned by the fledgling airline. Interactive multimedia and…
Must-see attractions in Outback Queensland
Outback Queensland
Combo Waterhole, 132km northwest of Winton and 13km south of Kynuna, is widely believed to be the place that inspired Banjo Paterson's famous bush ballad,…
Outback Queensland
The homeland of the Maiawali and Karuwali Indigenous peoples, Diamantina was a cattle station from the 19th century until it became a national park in…
Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame & Outback Heritage Centre
Outback Queensland
In a beautifully conceived building with an impressive multiarched design, this is a fine museum, and also a tribute to outback pioneers, early explorers,…
Outback Queensland
The award-winning Outback at Isa combines the visitor centre and booking office with three of Isa's major attractions. The Hard Times Mine is an authentic…
Outback Queensland
After the original centre burned to the ground in 2015, this hugely impressive rebuilt museum reopened in 2018. The displays on Banjo Paterson's iconic…
Outback Queensland
This interpretive centre offers a rare opportunity to learn about the native marsupial bilby and the long-running captive breeding and conservation…
Outback Queensland
It's 30 years since Crocodile Dundee hit the screens but the McKinlay pub, aka Walkabout Creek Hotel, is still trading off its success. Stop in for a cold…
Outback Queensland
Everyone should make the short trip up to the City Lookout for excellent 360-degree views of Mt Isa. The best time is sunset, when the smelter stacks are…
Outback Queensland
This $5-million contemporary art installation outside the train station – labelled an ‘upside down milk crate’ by one disgruntled local – is best seen at…
Outback Queensland
Get kitted out in mining attire and a head lamp at the Hard Times Mine. On this 2½-hour tour, often guided by former miners, you descend into a purpose…
Outback Queensland
The waterless Simpson Desert occupies a massive 200,000 sq km of central Australia and stretches across the Queensland, Northern Territory and South…
Outback Queensland
Richmond's undisputed highlight is this museum and visitor centre, housing Australia's best collection of marine fossils, most found by local landholders…
Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum
Outback Queensland
This outstanding dinosaur fossil museum, about 15km east of Winton, is set atop a rugged plateau known as the 'Jump Up'. There are two sides to the…
Outback Queensland
One of the more accessible national parks in Outback Queensland, Bladensburg lies south of Winton and can be visited on a half-day drive from there. Pick…
Outback Queensland
If your defining image of the outback is red sand dunes, red-rock escarpments, billabongs and spinifex plains, you might be thinking of Welford. West of…
Outback Queensland
This outstanding museum celebrates Dr John Flynn’s work setting up the invaluable and groundbreaking Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS), which gave hope…
Outback Queensland
Classic Outback Queensland scenery is Lochern's signature: grassy plains that turn yellow during drought; gidgee plains as hot and bare as anvils;…
Dinosaur Stampede National Monument
Outback Queensland
About 110km southwest of Winton is the startling Dinosaur Stampede at Lark Quarry, where you’ll see dinosaur footprints fossilised in a prehistoric stream…
Outback Queensland
Porcupine Gorge National Park is an oasis in the dry country 70km (by sealed road) north of Hughenden. The best spot is Pyramid Lookout; you can camp here…
Outback Queensland
The Min Min Encounter feels like a Spielberg movie set, featuring animatronic gadgetry, a cast of outback characters and eerie lighting in its hourly show…
Outback Queensland
Renowned for its deep canyons along the Powell River (which was clearly much larger in the past than it is today), with cliffs as high as nearly 50m in…
Outback Queensland
See the outback night sky in all its glory via a high-powered telescope and an expert guide. The 90-minute sessions start at 7.30pm, soon after sunset in…
Outback Queensland
A lovely spot just 3km west of town, Chinaman Creek Dam is good for birdwatching or a picnic – the small red-rock escarpments provide a pretty backdrop…
Outback Queensland
Towering over everything outside the Qantas Founders Outback Museum is a bright and shiny retired 1979 747-200B Jumbo. The tour of the jumbo and a nearby…
Eromanga Natural History Museum
Outback Queensland
Eromanga Natural History Museum, 3km south of Eromanga town, is home to the remains of 'Cooper' a 95- to 98-million-year-old titanosaur that once grew to…
Outback Queensland
This is the preserved 1888 home of the pioneering Jones family, full of local history memorabilia and Aboriginal artefacts. Outside are sheds containing…
Outback Queensland
On the edge of the Simpson Desert, about 35km west of Birdsville, Big Red is a photogenic 30m-high sand dune that offers a big challenge for 4WDers. It's…
Australian Workers Heritage Centre
Outback Queensland
This centre is dedicated to the Australian social, political and industrial movements so intertwined with Barcaldine's past. There's a variety of…
Outback Queensland
On the northern edge of town, this waddi tree, an ancient and extremely rare species, was the traditional meeting place and corroboree site for the Pitta…
Charleville School of Distance Education
Outback Queensland
This school covers 420,000 sq km… Take a tour of this distance-learning school that provides for children in remote communities and stations across…
Outback Queensland
Take the drive 12km south of Hughenden along the Muttaburra Rd to Mt Walker (478m) for fabulous 360-degree views over the flat outback landscape. There…
Outback Queensland
The fascinating Riversleigh Fossil Centre features recreations of Australia's prehistoric fauna, plus actual fossils found in the world-renowned fields at…
Outback Queensland
Near the entrance to the airport, a display of photos and information panels commemorates the 1930 visit of pioneering aviator Amy Johnson.
Outback Queensland
Lake Moondarra, 16km northeast of Mt Isa, is a local favourite and an excellent day trip with fishing, swimming and boating available in the pretty…
RFDS Charleville Visitor Centre
Outback Queensland
Out near the airport, this centre for the Royal Flying Doctor Service, one of several scattered across Australia's outback, has displays on the iconic…
Outback Queensland
This centre houses Hughenden's helpful visitor information centre and an impressive museum containing local history and a replica Muttaburrasaurus…
Outback Queensland
There’s an old-movie-world charm in the canvas-slung chairs, corrugated tin walls and star-studded ceiling at this classic semioutdoor theatre (1918),…
Outback Queensland
Built in 1887, this handsome period timber home with picket fence and wide verandah houses all manner of local historical artefacts typical of Australia…
Outback Queensland
Built with compressed mud from nearby Eyre Creek in the 1880s, Bedourie's Mud Hut is, along with the Bedourie Royal Hotel, one of the oldest buildings in…
