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Length: 0.6km
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Duration: 30 mins
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Grade: 3
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Style: One Way
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Start: Muntapa Tunnel
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End: Muntapa Tunnel
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Location: South East Queensland
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Closest Town: Muntapa Tunnel
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Distance from CBD: 210km
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State: QLD
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Latitude: -27.07811411
Longitude: 151.7464423
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Historic Lighthouse
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Muntapa Tunnel is a 0.6km, grade 3 One Way hike located in South East Queensland Queensland. The hike should take approximately 30 mins to complete.
Summary
The trail to the tunnel is open, as is the park , shelters, and toilets.
Queenslands longest straight railway tunnel (287m).
Hieght above sea level is 640m.
Tunnel is home to a colony of bent winged bats.
Walk part way through Queenslands longest straight railway tunnel (287m). A fence has been installed part way in from both entrances to protect the bat colony . It is also quite high being 640m above sea level. Now that trains don’t roar through it the tunnel is a seasonal home to a colony of bent winged bats.
The tunnel is sign posted from the main road (access road is unsealed). The road takes you to a park that is actually on the ridge over the tunnel which is the crest of the Great Dividing Range.
Notes
Muntapa Tunnel to Muntapa Tunnel in South East Queensland
15km south of Cooyar, north of Toowoomba, 210km from Brisbane
Compacted earth
Hilly forest
For more information and a location map please visit RailTrails Australia.
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