Sandstone Country
Expedition National Park. It’s a name that fires the imagination, conjuring visions of intrepid explorers venturing into wild and unknown lands, pioneering trails across rugged ranges, fording rocky streams, clambering through boulder-strewn gorges bound by sheer sandstone cliffs, beguiled by myriad birds and rare animals, scaling lofty peaks to gaze upon vast open woodlands, and resting at day’s end beside a campfire under a star-filled sky. All of this and more awaits the modern-day offroader at this remote park in Queensland’s Central Highlands, about 660km north-west of Brisbane.
“Once part of the Glenhaughton cattle station, the park is now the focus of self-reliant 4WDing”
The park comprises three distinct sections straddling the Expedition Range — Robinson Gorge in the east, and Lonesome and Beilba in the west. With a combined area of just over 1000sqkm, Expedition is the second largest conservation area in the Sandstone Belt. Once part of Glenhaughton cattle station, the park is now the focus of self-reliant 4WDing, remote bush camping and nature-based recreation.
THE EXPEDITION LANDSCAPE
The Expedition Range is a rugged sandstone plateau formed about 240 million years ago from vast amounts of sand deposited in thick beds up to 240m deep, compressed by their own weight into stone — distinctive white Precipice Sandstone — then folded and lifted above the surrounding Bowen-Surat Basins. After eons of exposure,
