Tweed Heads

Worth seeing in and around Tweed Heads

6 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Duranbah Beach

   Duranbah Beach, officially known as Flagstaff Beach, but also known as Dbah is the northernmost beach in New South Wales. Located in the Tweed Shire, Duranbah Beach is situated between the mouth of the Tweed River and the rocky headland Point Danger which also marks the Queensland-New South Wales border.

   1.8 km · surfing beach in Tweed Shire, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary

   Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary is a heritage-listed zoological garden at 28 Tomewin Street, Currumbin, Queensland, Australia. It was built in 1947 onwards.

   8 km · Australian zoo · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Point Danger Light

   Point Danger Light, also known as the Captain Cook Memorial Light, is an active lighthouse located on Point Danger, a headland between Coolangatta and Tweed Heads, marking the border between Queensland and New South Wales, Australia. It lays claim to be the first lighthouse in the world to experiment with laser as a light source.

   2 km · lighthouse in Queensland, Australia · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Currumbin Rock

   Currumbin is a coastal suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Currumbin had a population of 3,278 people.

   7.4 km · mountain in Australia · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Palm Beach-Currumbin State High School

   Palm Beach Currumbin State High School is an independent public, co-educational, secondary school, located in the Gold Coast suburb of Palm Beach, in Queensland, Australia. It is administered by the Department of Education, with an enrolment of 2,649 students and a teaching staff of 198, as of 2023.

   9.3 km · government secondary school in Palm Beach, QLD, Australia · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Fingal Head Light

   Fingal Head Light is an active lighthouse located at Fingal Head, New South Wales, Australia, a headland about 5 kilometres south of Point Danger, which marks the Queensland border.

   2.8 km · lighthouse in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia

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What Wikivoyage says to see

1. 01
   Point Danger

   Most prominent headland of the Gold Coast and the point where the New South Wales / Queensland border meets the sea.

2. 02
   Fingal Head
3. 03
   Tropical Fruit World

   An educational park where tropical fruit is grown for experiments, viewing and tasting.

From Wikivoyage: Tweed Heads, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Things to do

Scuba diving There are several scuba dive companies using Cook Island as their dive location. Cook island is the small island first mentioned by James Cook when he named Point Danger and Mt. Warning in 1770, about 2km offshore.

From Wikivoyage: Tweed Heads, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Where to eat

Tweed Heads has a vibrant club scene based on service and sporting clubs, much larger than the shire would normally sustain. The background to these establishments is that for many years poker machines were prohibited in Queensland, but allowable in clubs in New South Wales. Thus clubs proliferated just over the border in Tweed Heads, thriving on holiday traffic from the Gold Coast and on day trippers from Brisbane.

1. 01
   Coffee Club

   Reflection on the Sea Building, Shop 4, 120 Marine Parade, Coolangatta,.

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Getting to Tweed Heads

Airports

Gold Coast (OOL), 5 km · Brisbane (BNE), 99 km · Sunshine Coast (MCY), 183 km

Stations

Gold Coast Airport, 5.2 km

• Brisbane → Tweed Heads

  94 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · A$12–17
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• Maroochydore → Tweed Heads

  175 km · quickest by road, 3h 16m · A$25–33
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• Toowoomba → Tweed Heads

  171 km · quickest by road, 3h 22m · A$25–33
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Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Tweed Heads. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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