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Tourism and Events

Back to Bowra Hinterland Festival

The Back to Bowra Hinterland Festival is held in October in the beautiful sunny Nambucca Valley on the Mid North Coast.

Come for the day and try your luck at local family activities, watch the parades and sample our local cuisine.

Click here for information on the 2008 event.

The Handmade House Tour

Each year, usually in October, the Tallowood Community School organises for a range of handmade houses in the Bellingen/Bowraville area to be opened to the public. For a modest fee visitors can inspect houses made from mud brick, rammed earth, wattle and daub, mud and sawdust packing and stone and wood construction. There is also an opportunity to inspect permaculture and solar energy uses.

For more information contact the school on (02) 6564 7619 or email tallow@nor.com.au.

St James Anglican Church

Located at the northern end of the main street this striking wooden building was completed in 1899. It is a symbol of the town's total commitment to the use of timber.

Drives in the Local Area

Virtually any road leading out of Bowraville takes the visitor through spectacular forest countryside where it is possible to see giant tree ferns, cedar trees, fig trees, stag horns, kangaroo ferns, and a variety of eucalypts. Particularly attractive are the roads from Bowraville to Bellingen and from Bowraville to Taylors Arm, the home of the famous 'Pub With No Beer'.

Dunggir National Park, located about 20km west of Bowraville, derives its name from the local Gumbaynggirr dialect and means ‘Koala’.

The park forms an eastern outlier for the Eastern Escarpment, and Bowra Sugarloaf is a prominent landscape feature within its boundaries. Dunggir is one of a number of nature reserves in the Nambucca Valley, including Ngambaa, Juugawaarri, Ganay, Bowraville and Bollanolla, which offer outstanding views and picnic areas.