September Outing Details - Spicers Gap, Saturday 20th September 2025

FFNC at Spicers Gap in 2022
Photo: L. Beaton

Time: 8:30 am

Where: Spicers Gap day-use area, near the campground, and opposite the mango farm.

Directions: Directions-Route A: From the Dugandan Pub (0kms) - head south and take the Mt Alford turnoff (right turn). Go through Mt Alford and on to Moogerah – up over the ridge on Mt Alford Road. At 28kms turn left into Lake Moogerah Road and the sign says to Mt Edwards. Go over Reynolds Creek bridge and on some good dirt until 38kms -turn left into Spicers Gap Road. There is bitumen for 3kms and then about 4kms of good dirt, but steep in places. 

Directions-Route B: alternate route. Get onto Cunningham Highway and travel south through Aratula for about 5kms and turn left into Lake Moogerah Road. Travel about 5kms until you hit Spicers Gap Road on the right.

Activities: Spring will have sprung. There will be birds and butterflies everywhere. It is a while since we went there last - 2022. The bush has come back a lot more since those fires of 2019. There are tall forest areas and rainforest pockets. There are tracks and roadsides –all reasonably flatish. There is even a spring-fed well (Moss’s Well). For those who want to walk a lot there is the Mt Matheson Track or the old road.  

We will stay up in the mountains for lunch. We might hang-around the campground for a bit; up the Matheson Track for a short distance; Moss’s Well and road for a bit; and maybe Governors Chair for a bit.

Level of Fitness: As easy or as strenuous as you like, your choice. 

Facilities: Picnic tables, toilet.

What to Bring: suitable clothing and footwear for walking in the bush, sunscreen, insect repellent, safety stuff, water, morning tea and lunch, chair, and the usual naturalist stuff of your choice; binoculars, camera, field guides, notebook, etc.

Upon Arrival: Please register in the Attendance Book and pay your $2 per person participant fee.