Qualla: Wollomombi Falls

Wollomombi Falls: Introduction

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Cgoodwin, CC BY-SA 3.0. There is a moment on the Northern Tablelands where the flat, grassy world simply stops. The Wollomombi River, a modest tableland stream, runs to the lip of a cliff and falls away into nothing, plunging into a gorge so deep that the bottom is hard to make out from the lookouts above. In a single clean drop the water falls a hundred metres, and as the gorge steps down toward the Chandler River it keeps falling, for a combined descent of around 220 metres that ranks Wollomombi among the very highest waterfalls in Australia. After heavy rain the cascade roars white against dark rock. In a dry spell it can dwindle to a silver thread. Either way, the void it carves is permanent and enormous.

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Wollomombi Falls: The Edge of the Tableland

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Cgoodwin, CC BY-SA 3.0. Wollomombi sits about 40 kilometres east of Armidale in Oxley Wild Rivers National Park, just a short turn off the aptly named Waterfall Way, the road that strings together a whole series of these tableland cataracts. The geography here is the whole story. The Northern Tablelands...

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Wollomombi Falls: A Waterfall and Its Companion

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Cgoodwin, CC BY-SA 3.0. Wollomombi does not fall alone. Right beside it, the Chandler River makes its own plunge as the Chandler Falls, and the two gorges meet just below, their waters joining in the depths. From the right vantage you can take in both at once, twin ribbons of water dropping into the sam...

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Wollomombi Falls: Walking the Rim

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Tentotwo, CC BY-SA 3.0. The falls are best understood on foot. The Wollomombi Walk leads upstream past a lookout platform and across the river on a long steel footbridge, then on to a second platform that gazes down on the falls from the opposite wall of the gorge, with a further spur opening views into...

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Wollomombi Falls: Quiet Camp Above the Void

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Damien Linnane, CC0. For all its drama, Wollomombi rewards those who linger. The picnic ground and bush campsites sit on the tableland near the rim, equipped with the simple comforts of the back country: drinking water, pit toilets, a shelter shed, a fireplace, and an information display. Spend a nig...

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