FIND YOUR CHILL IN CHINCHILLA

The melon capital is known for its colourful countryside, with fishing, festivals, history, arts and culture bursting from its 81,000m2 seams.

Find your chill in Chinchilla with this guide.

Miles & Chinchilla

Discover an old world at Chinchilla Museum

Take a step back in time and visit the Chinchilla Museum to experience the town just as it was in its pioneering days.

Explore the old dancing hall (Goombi Hall), an ANZAC memorial exhibition, local sawmill history with the Cypress Pine Interpretive Centre and cactoblastis story, school classrooms, workshops and homesteads.

On the first Sunday of the month, let the kids slip back to yesteryear riding the miniature train that snakes through the museum grounds.

Get fruity at the Chinchilla Melon Festival

Wearing the title ‘watermelon capital of Australia’, you’d expect nothing less than melon-mania at the biennial Chinchilla Melon Festival.

Fossick for Chinchilla Red

Visit the Chinchilla Museum to observe shelves of petrified wood, known as Chinchilla Red. The display is considered one of Australia’s most diverse collections of the polished possession.

To have a go digging some up yourself, you can purchase a permit online from the Department of Resources or at the Chinchilla Visitor Information Centre to fossick on private property for your own chance of uncovering Chinchilla Red. Be sure to pop into the Visitor Information Centre to pay your fees of $5 per person, per site before heading out to the allocating fossicking sites as well.

“My passion for our Aussie farmers struggling with drought and other natural disasters saw me, with the help and support of my friends establish a charity called Drought Angels here in Chinchilla. The people, their caring and compassionate nature, is why I call Chinchilla home.” Natasha Johnson

Cast off at the Chinchilla Weir

Don’t forget to pack your rod and reel in Chinchilla, you’re heading to an inland fishing oasis – commonly known as the Chinchilla Weir.

Note: Fishing is not permitted within 200m of the weir wall, but the rest is fair game.

Take a stroll along Charley’s Creek Track

You don’t have to head out of town to get your nature fix. Charley’s Creek winds its way across town and there’s a walking track beside the watercourse to hug its journey.

Your best entry is via Middle or Bell Street in town or just off the Warrego Highway next to Charley’s Creek Bridge.