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If you know your local streets, parklands and walking tracks like the back of your hand, it’s time to drop your location pin a little further afield in Southern Queensland Country.

While you’ll need to clock up a few bitumen miles in the car before starting your walking adventure, there’s national parks, farmlands and purpose-built trails in nature reserves to explore once you cross the Great Dividing Range.

Get your activewear and walking shoes ready for these fun and active things to do in the great outdoors.

Local Guides

Weekend away: High Country

If heading off for a weekend of sleep-ins, good food, wine tasting and walks sound like you, set your course for Ravensbourne, in Toowoomba’s high country.

Feel the Freedom: Escape to Somerset and Lockyer Valley

Pack up all your cares and woe and leave your troubles in the rearview mirror. It’s time to escape for five days of freedom in Queensland Country’s camping cornerstones, Somerset and Lockyer Valley. Freedom awaits just one-hour from Brisbane, Toowoomba and the Sunshine Coast, making this five-day itinerary the perfect winter getaway for time-poor travellers.

Country Cool on the Western Downs

Get a taste of country life on a day trip to Jimbour and Bell in the Western Downs, just a short drive from Toowoomba or the Bunya Mountains.

Everything you need to know about Girraween National Park

Girraween National Park’s name might translate to ‘place of flowers’, but its more than just its blooms that attract avid hikers and nature explorers to its borders.

5 Fun Free Activities in Somerset

They say the best things in life are free, so put your wallets away and enjoy these 5 Fun Free Activities in Somerset.

How to do wellness in Southern Queensland Country

These days wellness means more than treating yourself to a spa day and manicure.

The mother of all nature experiences in Southern Queensland Country

These nature experiences are for everyone, whether you’re a keen hiker, total beginner, or just want somewhere scenic to lay down a picnic rug.

Sunshine Coast to Western Downs

While the Western Downs might be best known for its agriculture scene, past the farm gates you’ll find history and heritage in each of its small towns and communities.

10 things to do in Goondiwindi

Riddle us this: name a town which sits on the border of Queensland and New South Wales, whose name was put on the map thanks to a grey racehorse and plays home to a large portion of Australia’s cotton industry?

A travellers' guide to the Granite Belt

There are special places that can stir strong emotions – places that have a way of getting deep into your soul and bringing happiness and lasting good memories.

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Whether you like your days action-packed or spent at a slower speed, one thing is for certain, you’ll find your perfect pace of life in Southern Queensland Country.

From playing farmer for the day with a station stay, hiking through an ancient national park to turning back the pages of history at one of our museums across the region, there’s no risk of being bored in our country.

Start planning your visit with these things to do.