Charters Towers, Queensland 🇦🇺 2025

Date: 2-4th July 2025 

Travelled: 100 kms from Ravenswood to Charters Towers  

Visited: Charters Towers  

Stayed: Charters Towers Tourist Park, $39.60, S20.09351, E146.26106  

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We escape Ravenswood and make our way back to the Flinders Highway. An hour or so later we roll into Charters Towers. The truck’s odometer clicks over 3,000 kilometres since we left home nearly 7 weeks ago. Firstly we do a lap into the CBD to get our bearings and then head for Mosman Park end of Charters.

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Having had a little bit of a struggle getting a booking we managed to get a spot at the Tourist Park on the Hughenden side of Charters Towers. With caravan and motorhomes all getting longer we have noted getting a 9m+ site is not easy. Anyway we settle in.

Not wanting to waste the afternoon the bikes are unloaded and we ride to Towers Hill lookout and take in the scenery. Without doubt the steepest climb we’ve taken on our bikes. Not that far, not that high but steep. The views are fabulous and the lookout has several info panels on the discovery of gold and the history of Charters.

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Next morning on another of Pam’s forced marches we find the Colonial Cemetery. The cemetery was opened in 1872 and closed when it was full in 1895. Most of the 5,000 graves have no marker remaining, but those that do are mostly relatively young men of Irish descent.

The final photo in that gallery Sister Mary Evangelist stated to be the first Nun to be buried in Charters.

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Later armed with a map of the prominent civic and religious building we go for a wander around central Charters.

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Queensland seems to have a lot of funding available for public projects. The Excelsior Hotel for example, it was destroyed by fire in 1995. Sitting dormant for many years it was then rebuilt as a prominent heritage building now a library with the original facade.

Walking and cycling here and there we notice the street signs have an odd symbol on them. Then we start spotting the roof vents on most of the old houses and buildings, it’s a Charters Towers thing.

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Later we cycled out to Columba Poppit Head. A combination rest area and tourist stop which features an old mine head and lots of historic information as well as the Wall of History Mosaic.

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The mosaic has been created from more than 5 million tiles. It’s very impressive and the detail stunning.

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So that was our stay in Charters Towers. We really enjoyed walking and cycling here and there.

We do a quick shop at Woolworths, hit the bakery around the corner and fill with fuel as we continue our journey west along the Flinders Highway for Hughenden.

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Michael + Pam