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Tidbinbilla Map and Guide Natural places Discover Tidbinbilla’s outstanding wildlife, natural beauty and diverse habitats. The beautiful and serene Tidbinbilla Valley protects wetlands, grasslands, woodlands and eucalypt forest habitats. Higher up, wet fern gullies, mountain streams and sub-alpine forests occur. Tidbinbilla is part of the Australian Alps national parks, a series of parks and reserves that span Australia’s south- eastern high country. The Australian Alps are National Heritage listed, recognising that its natural and cultural values are of outstanding national significance. Recreation Recognised as Canberra’s leading ecotourism attraction, Tidbinbilla offers outstanding wildlife and nature-based experiences in a natural setting as well as opportunities Tidbinbilla to find out about the conservation initiatives at Tidbinbilla. At the Visitor Centre you can explore the Discover Tidbinbilla interpretation gallery, then have a coffee or light meal Tidbinbilla offers outstanding wildlife and at the Tidbinbilla kiosk. In the Tidbinbilla shop you can natural experiences and is set within a search for a unique momento of your visit. In the reserve beautiful valley framed by granite-topped itself you can enjoy a picnic or barbecue with family and mountains. Brown PMS 497 friendsDK green PMS 5757 at one of the many picnic areas while the children LT green PMS 5777 Orange PMS 1525 enjoy the Nature Discovery Playground. Ranger-guided activities are popular with visitors and can be booked online at www.tidbinbilla.com.au. Tidbinbilla offers outstanding wildlife and natural Experience wonderful wetland wildlife in the Sanctuary, experiences. Discover this beautiful valley and its natural find a koala in the eucalypt forest or watch for platypus landscape. Enjoy the range of walking trails, meander at Black Flats Dam or in the Sanctuary. For the more through the Sanctuary wetlands, find a koala in the energetic, there are the mountain bike trails around eucalypt forest, or relax with friends and family with a Jedbinbilla and Gibraltar Peak. If walking is more picnic or barbecue amongst the kangaroos and emus. your style, then there are over 20 marked walking trails ranging from an easy short stroll to an all day A unique history bushwalk. Overnight accommodation is available at Nil Aboriginal people have had a continuous association Desperandum, an historic rammed earth cottage and can with the Tidbinbilla area for at least 21,000 years. It be booked through: www.bookings.act.gov.au is the traditional Country of the Ngunnawal people. Conservation Neighbouring clans travelled through or stayed in this region, trading artefacts and knowledge, celebrating Successful breeding programs for the critically marriages and undertaking important ceremonies. The endangered Southern Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby, the name ‘Tidbinbilla’ comes from ‘Jedbinbilla’, meaning Tasmanian Bettong and the Northern Corroboree Frog ‘where boys become men’, referring to initiation are managed at Tidbinbilla. You can see Northern ceremonies on the mountain tops. Corroboree Frogs at the Tidbinbilla Visitor Centre. At the Rock-wallaby habitat you may glimpse this shy The Tidbinbilla Valley also reflects the European history wallaby basking on a rock. of the area. Century old rammed earth cottages and evidence of farming and eucalyptus oil distillation Tidbinbilla also protects a wide range of other wildlife provide graphic reminders of the pioneers who tried to including koalas, emus, kangaroos, platypus, wombats, make a life here from the mid 1800s. potoroos, wallaroos, possums, water birds and much more. The Sanctuary • There are no bins at Tidbinbilla. The Sanctuary at Tidbinbilla offers fabulous • Leave your pets at home. opportunities to experience nature. A wetlands • Only light fires in authorised fireplaces. ecosystem, surrounded by bushland and protected by a • No camping in the reserve. predator-proof fence, provides a safe refuge for a range • Drive carefully. For both your safety and our wildlife. of native animals. Stroll along a wheelchair accessible pathway past a series of interconnected ponds. Search • Please observe the 35 km speed limit. for platypus from the boardwalks, observe the resident Opening times: and migratory bird life, explore granite outcrops or get up close to our reptiles. Volunteer interpreters will share Visitor Centre and kiosk Opens Closes their knowledge and passion for the bush with you on September to Daily 9.00am 4:30pm June weekends, public and school holidays. July & August Daily 10.00am 3:30pm A place for learning Reserve gates Opens Closes Birrigai at Tidbinbilla offers environmental and outdoor Summer (AEDT) Daily 7:30am 8:00pm Winter (AEDT) Daily 7:30am 6:00pm educational overnight camps and day programs (linked to the Australian curriculum) for schools, corporate and community groups using purpose-built accommodation Entry fees apply. Reserve may be closed on days of total and catering facilities. Ranger-guided talks at Tidbinbilla fire ban, high winds or for management requirements. can also be booked. For more information go to www. Closed Christmas Day. tidbinbilla.com.au Located approximately 40 minute’s drive from the city A place for volunteering centre. (from the city/northside, use Cotter Road and Paddys River Road. From Tuggeranong, use Point Hut If you have a passion for the natural environment and Road and Tidbinbilla Road. enjoy sharing it with others, then why not join the Friends of Tidbinbilla ParkCare group, the Tidbinbilla Further information Pioneers Association or the team of volunteer Tidbinbilla Visitor Centre Ph (02) 6205 1233 interpreters managed by CVA. Full training is provided. Email: [email protected] Website: www.tidbinbilla.com.au Further information Find us on Facebook (Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve-TAMS) Canberra Connect Ph 13 22 81 [email protected] Birrigai Ph (02) 6205 6748 Fax 6207 1030 Website: www.conservationvolunteers.com.au Tidbinbilla Email: [email protected] Website: www.tams.act.gov.au website: www.tidbinbilla.com.au How to get to Tidbinbilla Discover our wild side and venture on an exclusive, Gungahlin behind the scenes endangered wildlife experience. Belconnen U r North ia r r Canberra a Participants will see first hand the role Tidbinbilla R o a Canberra City d plays in breeding the critically endangered Brush- Cotter Dam and reserve T Cott u tailed Rock-wallaby and the Northern Corroboree Frog. e g r Roa d g e r a Pa n d o d Personally contribute to this important research as you n y Canberra Deep s g Woden R P iv a Space Tracking e r r k w Queanbeyan Complex R M assist Tidbinbilla staff with the breeding and monitoring a o u a r y d ru m b id program. Stay overnight at Nil Desperandum, a pioneer g e e D R r a Tuggeranong i v k e e homestead hidden away in a tranquil valley. The tour r f o r Tidbinbilla d D Visitor Centre r iv is run in partnership between Tidbinbilla and CVA. For e Tid Point Hut Tidbinbilla binb illa R more information call 1800 032 501 or go to oad www.naturewise.com.au Birrigai NEW Woods Reserve SOUTH d oa Please remember R Tharwa rin WALES Co N Namadgi • Respect the natural environment and other visitors. Corin forest National mountain Park resort Petrol • Cycling is allowed on formed roads and trails only. To Cooma Short walks and places of interest 12. PEPPERMINT TRAIL 1. CONGWARRA TRAIL 1.8 km return 45 minutes Easy 3 - 4 km 1 hour Easy From the Koala Path, follow the gravel track through the tall eucalypt trees and across Mountain Creek. Great for viewing An easy stroll from the Visitor Centre through open koalas and forest birds. grassland that takes you to the Nature Discovery Playground (1.5km, 30 minutes). From here, trails meander 13. CASCADES TRAIL down to the Tidbinbilla River and connect to Dalsetta via 1.8 km return 1 hour Moderate Webbs, Greens and Sheedys picnic areas. This walk climbs through the wet forest and meets a 2. BIRRIGAI TIME TRAIL cascading mountain stream. Starts from the Mountain Creek 3 km return 1 hour Easy car park. From the Visitor Centre explore the Aboriginal and 14. LYREBIRD TRAIL European heritage trail as it meanders up to the Birrigai 2 km return 1 hour Moderate Rock Shelter. This trail passes in and out of moist fern-filled gullies 3. TURKEY HILL TRAIL and open forest. Look and listen for signs of the Superb 500m return 15 minutes Easy Lyrebird, particularly during winter. From Dalsetta, take a short walk among the granite tors of Longer, harder walks Turkey Hill. 4. XANTHORRHOEA LOOP 15. ASHBROOK FIRE TRAIL 2.5 km return 45 minutes Moderate 6.5 km return 2 hours Moderate From Dalsetta, this walk climbs to a magnificent stand of From Hanging Rock car park, explore tall forests and wet grass trees. gullies before crossing Ashbrook Creek. Continue up to the locked gate on Mountain Creek Road then return the same 5. ROCK VALLEY HERITAGE SITE way. Park at site 16. FISHING GAP Learn about early European settlement in the Tidbinbilla 7.7 km return 3 hours Hard Valley by visiting the restored ruins of Rock Valley Homestead, built in 1895. Tall Mountain Gums and fern gullies frame this meandering walk along the fire trail. The walk ends at the saddle and 6. CHURCH ROCK HERITAGE LOOP returns the same way. 2.5 km return 1 hour Easy 17. DEVILS GAP Follow the footsteps of Aboriginal people and the early 6 km return 2 hours Moderate pioneers on this heritage walk to Church Rock. Great views and stories. Starts at Flints. A short but steep walk up the fire trail through dry mountain eucalypt forest. The walk ends at the boundary 7. BUSHLAND MEANDER gate and returns on the same trail. 1.6 km return 1 hour Easy 18.
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