LRE (Longreach) weekend - 26-27 Sep 2026

[jastel]

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Thread 'QANTAS Founders Museum'

Oct 5, 2024

Recently did a 5500kms road trip out to western Qld, firstly the Dinosaur Trail, then Longreach, Qantas Museum, Stockmans Hall of Fame etc, into Brisbane to visit some friends and home. This is about the Qantas Founders Museum part of the trip.

Most Aussies probably know a bit about the history of Qantas and like me are quite proud of our iconic National Airline. I guess other people hate it just as much...you can leave now.

Paul McGinness and Wilmot Hudson Fysh were both veterans of Gallipoli when they met in the newly formed Australian Flying Corps in 1918, McGuinness was the pilot and...

• jastel
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A more recent Trip Report.

The Dinosaur things around Winton and Richmond are well worth seeing, but probably better on a road trip with a 4WD. Lark Quarry is about 50kms of dirt from Winton...it was good when I went in a car but it can change quickly.

The area was struggling with enough workers post covid when I went through, there were hotels with 30 rooms but only staff to open/manage 10 rooms. Hopefully it has improved by now.
Dont believe any opening times you see on the net until you get there and read the sign on the door but.

 

[Mattg]

I can't recall if @Mattg and I did a TR for our drive through the outback, but we managed to fit quite a bit into the time we had, which I think was just under a week, Brisbane to Charleville via Roma, then Charleville to Longreach via Blackall and Barcaldine, Longreach to Winton via Australian Age of Dinosaurs, Winton to Emerald (with backtracking) via Lark Quarry and then finally Emerald to Brisbane. Done in an SUV / 2WD. Unless you really want the route on your map, driving could be cheaper and allow you to see more

Looks like we did write a trip report of our 2020 road trip:

Thread 'Road trip to Outback Queensland'

Aug 5, 2020

This morning I started a journey into the outback unlike I have ever done before. Previously I have always flown everywhere I go (unsurprisingly) but on this trip I wanted to take in some of the sights in between the QantasLink route network.

Joining me on this 4-night journey is @Mattg, so I suppose this is technically a staff road trip, with him being the @AFF Editor and me being @support.

Our journey today takes us from South-East QLD, up the range to Toowoomba, through Dalby, Chinchilla and Miles, lunch at Roma and onwards to Charleville before nightfall.

• samh004
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Once you fly all the way to Longreach on a Dash8 might as well spend a few days and see all points of interest nearby (hey it's the outback - nearby can be a few 100 K's) - it's probably a "once and done" sort of place.

I thought so too, when I first visited Longreach in 2015. But I ended up really liking the place - as well as Winton and the surrounds - and have since been back multiple times. And I'll happily return again, if the stars align.

 

[Myrna]

Would highly recommend Longreach. In August we drove from Sydney to Cairns (took 5 days), flew to Cook Town from Cairns for the day, then started the outback touring trip to Winton (did not have time to see the Dinosaur Park), and Longreach (visited Qantas Founders Museum, did the tours; and enjoyed the Stockman Hall of Fame show). We stayed at a motel next to the Stockman Hall of Fame and right opposite the Qantas Founders Museum. We could see the red tail plane from our room. We wanted to do the river cruise in Longreach in the evening, but it was fully booked out