Toowoomba Area

Ninety minutes from Brisbane, the road climbs the Great Dividing Range and delivers you straight into Queensland's Garden City, streets and parks blooming hardest each September during the Carnival of Flowers. Picnic Point sits right on the escarpment edge, a lookout over the whole Lockyer Valley that explains why people call this a different climate entirely. Wander the CBD and the murals take over, one of the largest street art collections in regional Australia covering walls block after block. Heritage buildings from the city's boom years still line the older streets. It's a city with more layers than the drive up suggests.