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DRIVE ROUTE 2: MILITARY TRAIL

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WANDOAN Avenue of Honour DRIVE ROUTE 2: MILITARY TRAIL

Possum Park START: Dalby END: Meandarra DRIVING DISTANCE: 383 km ALLOW: 4 hours 40 minutes

MILES

ANZAC Park & Miles Historical Village Museum

Chinchilla Botanic Parkland Jeitz Road & Nine Mile Stock Route Road

Trumpeter's Corner

Warra Hotel WARRA

Warrego Hwy (A2) Kaimkillenbun Pub

FINISH HERE

Meandarra ANZAC Memorial Museum

MEANDARRA DALBY

START HERE

ANZAC Park

BRISBANE (208KM)

1. Start your Military Trail in Dalby at the ANZAC Park

War Memorial, Patrick Street. 2. Drive from DALBY to Kaimkillenbun Pub via the

Dalby Cooyar Road (27.5KM) to view secret WW1

Digger signatures.

3. Proceed east along Bell Kaimkillenbun Road to

Malakoff Kaimkillenbun Road. Continue (14.7km) to the Pirrinuan Malakoff Road, Pirrinuan Apunyal

Road to the Warrego Highway/A2. Turn right and continue on Highway to Warra (45.5km) stopping in at the Warra Pub. 4. From WARRA make your way to Trumpeter’s

Corner. Continue along Best Street, turn left into Taylor Street, head north-east along Warra

Marnhull Road (9.9km) to Jeitz Road. Turn left and drive (3.2km) to the Nine Mile Stock Route Road intersection to the location of Trumpeter’s Corner. 5. Drive on to CHINCHILLA to see the Cenotaph at the award-winning Botanic Parkland. Continue north along Jeitz Road (5.8km) to Inverai Road, turn left and drive (20.5km) to Brigalow Canaga Road. Turn left and drive (10.7km) to Brigalow. Cross railway line. Turn right and head north-west onto Warrego

Highway to CHINCHILLA (15.5km)] 6. From CHINCHILLA, make your way to the Miles

Historical Village Museum. Follow Warrego

Highway/A2 through CHINCHILLA and head northwest to MILES (44km)]. 7. Next, continue along the Warrego Highway through

MILES to ANZAC Park to see the very rare German field gun, Nahkampfkanone. 8. From MILES, you will need to book your stay to experience our invasion friendly Possum Park, travelling just (20km) further west along the A5

Leichhardt Highway towards WANDOAN. 9. Next, make your way to either to MEANDARRA or

WANDOAN. In Wandoan, stop and commemorate the 103 families who came to Wandoan through the

Soldier Settler Scheme between 1952 and 1954 and read their stories a the Avenue of Honour memorial site or visit the new Soldier Settler Sculpture at

Wandoan. You can either conclude your Military

Trail here or continue on to Meandarra. 10. Make your way to the Meandarra ANZAC Memorial

Museum. Driving back to MILES turn right at

Dawson St/Leichhardt/A5 in Miles and continue onto the township of CONDAMINE (33km). Turn right onto

Caliguel Street/Leichhardt/A5 and in (3kms) turn right onto Condamine Meandarra Road/State Route 74. Drive (51km) towards MEANDARRA.

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