Scenic Winton

Winton has many places of beauty, some listed here, and others to discover for yourself.

>> Bladensburg National Park is the ideal location for birdwatching and picnicking.

>> Cawnpore Lookout, past Middleton on the way to Boulia, offers stunning views of the surrounding jump ups and downs country.

>> Combo Waterhole is a peaceful place to relax, although it reputely the site were Waltzing Matilda's Swaggie drowned himself.

>> A visit to the Old Cork Homestead Ruins on Diamantina River Road is a trip into pioneering history and an opportunity to camp on the banks of a permanent billabong.

>> The Rangeland Rifts are a spectacular local formation of rifts, lately used as the location of the Burns' brothers hideout in The Proposition (although they are no longer open to the general public).

Winton Snippets
Pelican Waterhole

Winton was originally known as Pelican Waterhole. Local tradition is that the Postmaster, Robert Allen, an ex-police officer from Aramac, gave the town its modern name. As Ppostmaster, he found the name Pelican Waterhole too difficult to write on postage stamps, so he substituted Winton, after his birthplace in Bournemouth, England.