Waterfall Way Numinbah Forest

Area: Numinbah Forest
Distance: 10-13 km return
Time: 4 hours
Difficulty: Moderate Grade 3
Start Time: 9.30 am
Carry your lunch in your back-pack
Cost: $2
Meet-up Car park on corner of Gold Coast Springbrook Road (Pine Creek Rd) just after the end of the dam.
We will car shuffle to Forest Park Picnic Area or the (quite rough) car park beside the Numinbah Valley School of Arts.

PLEASE CHECK ALL WALKS AT 7.30 AM ON THE MORNING OF ALL WALKS TO SEE IF THEY HAVE BEEN CANCELLED OR AMENDED.

Car Pooling: $5 Meet Nerang Fair for combined car pooling meet-up 8.00 am leave 8.15 am. 74-98 Beaudesert-Nerang Rd, Nerang, QLD

Walk leader: Warwick 0408 300056
Please read the Conditions of Group Membership and event participation at the end of the walk description.
If you RSVP YES and then for whatever reason change your mind (that’s okay) but please cancel and amend your RSVP to NO, at least 72 hrs prior to a walk. If you cancel the night/day before this is unacceptable to others possibly waiting. To do so once, at late notice, is forgivable, twice is unacceptable, to do so a third time, you will automatically be placed onto a wait-list for any walks you RSVP YES thus placing you at the bottom of the availability list.
This walk is relatively easy but is rated as Grade 3 due to the creek crossings you can do normally by rock hopping, so those that have them bring your walking poles. No steps to climb just at times steep upward gradient inclines. This is a walk that is quite different and very scenic and is not in any guide or walking maps. So please join us for something different.

The start is a slight uphill gradient see Google maps street view for a close up. Not steep at all but by doing it in the chosen direction it is then mainly all down hill. Apart from another extended inclined after the creek up to Chester Road which is a track, once we reach the main road, after the creeks, where Chester Road meets the main road we will cross over and go down to the seating area by the water and take lunch overlooking the Nerang River that supply the Hinze Dam.

This route is very easy to get lost in so please advise caution if walking alone. You will see from the picture that the area is very scenic. However lunchtime maybe a little delayed depending on our groups progress so bring snack bars to chomp on whilst we stop.

We’ll meet at the off road car park on the corner of Nerang Murwillumbah Rd and Pine Creek Road also known as Gold Coast Springbrook Road Murwillumbah.

Coffee at Hinze Dam.

Conditions of Group Membership and event participation
1 GCMWWG is not an incorporated association or organisation and is composed of individuals who join with each other in an informal manner to engage in the pleasurable activity of bushwalking and accordingly each individual member is required to take personal responsibility for his or her own safety and to comply with the recommendations published on the Group’s meet up website and with directions given from time to time by any walk leader of a Bushwalk undertaken by the Group.
2 Participants are recommended:
(i) to wear walking boots which provide ankle support;
(ii) carry his or her own rucksack which will contain at least 1 litre of fresh water in watertight containers and personal first aid items including band-aids (or similar), bandages, antiseptic, insect repellents and sunscreen and foodstuffs appropriate to the length and timing of the bushwalk;
(iii) to make a realistic assessment prior to participating in a bushwalk as to whether the participants’ physical condition will allow the participant to enjoyably and safely engage in the bushwalking activity without endangering the safety and enjoyment of other participants;
(iv) to wear or carry clothing suitable for each walk including clothing (such as a waterproof jacket or poncho) that is appropriate for unexpected changes in the weather.
3 Each bushwalk undertaken by the Group shall have a nominated leader who will walk at the front of the Group (“walk leader”) and a nominated person who will walk at the rear of the group (“back marker”). The walk leader will set the pace of the walk and will halt the walk at appropriate times in his or her discretion for rests and drink breaks and meal breaks. The back marker will endeavour to keep the group together at all times and to notify the walk leader if any untoward accident or injury is sustained by any participant. The walk leader and the back marker for each bushwalk will be nominated by the Group Leader.
4 Each participant will be required to observe any directions or instructions given by the walk leader including any instruction to shorten the walk, change the route of the walk or abandon the walk due to any unexpected change of circumstances such as track closure or obstruction, inclement weather and/or injury or illness suffered by any member.
5 Any one of the Group Leader, walk leader or back marker for each bushwalk undertaken by the group shall carry with him or her a mobile phone and a first aid kit.
6 There shall be published in each event's description a degree of difficulty by the Group a statement as to the degree of difficulty of the proposed bushwalk so that members may realistically assess whether they (or their guests) have the requisite degree of physical fitness required to pleasurably and safely undertake the proposed bushwalk.
7 Details of each proposed bushwalk including the walk route, the commencement time and the anticipated time required to complete the walk will be published on the Group’s meet up website.