HistoryHidden gem
Mount Morgan historic mine and town
Mount Morgan, Queensland
A heritage gold-rush town with a huge open-cut pit and a railway museum.
- Cost
- Paid
- Time to allow
- 3 hours
Once one of the richest gold mines in the world, Mount Morgan still has its old streetscape of pubs and shopfronts. Guided tours go to the old mine site and the pit, now filled with a bright acid-blue lake. The railway station and museum are worth a walk while you're there.
Good to know
- Book the mine site tour at the visitor centre
- It's a short, easy detour inland from Rockhampton
- Getting there
- Sealed road
- Vehicles
- Campervans fine
- Dogs
- Dogs on a lead
Facilities
- Toilets
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