{"id":37002,"date":"2025-07-07T17:51:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T07:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/?p=37002"},"modified":"2025-07-07T17:57:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T07:57:06","slug":"hughenden-queensland-%f0%9f%87%a6%f0%9f%87%ba-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/?p=37002","title":{"rendered":"Hughenden, Queensland \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Date: 5th July 2025 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Travelled: 255 kms from Charters Towers to Hughenden <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visited: Hughenden  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stayed: Hughenden RV Campground, Free, S20.84329, E144.20649 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Flinders Highway west of Charters is very quiet this morning just the odd very long truck heading in the opposite direction. The railway line is close by on either our left or right for much of the 3 hour dive. Driving takes your full attention, there are some very narrow bridges and the Jayco doesn\u2019t like the table drains and culverts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Filling up with fuel which is getting more expensive as we continue west Pam takes the opportunity to check out the healthy food options in the bain-marie pictured below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We safely roll into Hughenden<\/a> and follow the GPS to the free camp down near the river. As the picture below shows everyone loves a free night. By drinking time the place is full and our new best friends from Gin Gin in the motorhome next door join us for a chat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pictured below the Hughenden highlights. It\u2019s a neat and tidy place of just over a thousand people. The signs tell us it\u2019s sheep and cattle country but we haven\u2019t seen a sheep for 700 kms so there keeping a low profile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Only one pub remains.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bit of windmill artwork in the main street<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Masonic Temple needs a lick of paint<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Police Station<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Kitsch perhaps ?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hughenden is within the tourist dinosaur triangle, note the sulo bin outside the discovery centre pictured below, which by the way closes early on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My Mother loved windmills, the rotor on this Comet is 11m in diameter, one of only 15 produced<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Your tax dollars at work.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Grand Hotel stood on this block until it was burnt down in 2018, now home to a fibreglass dinosaur, that\u2019s progress !<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Up not really early it\u2019s another forced march this time around Hughenden Recreational Lake. It\u2019s a 3 kms walk, I fain a hammy and let Pam do the second lap solo. It\u2019s a great facility and just across the road from our free stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So that\u2019s Hughenden done, we continue west for Julia Creek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Michael + Pam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Date: 5th July 2025  Travelled: 255 kms from Charters Towers to Hughenden Visited: Hughenden   Stayed: Hughenden RV Campground, Free, S20.84329, E144.20649  The Flinders Highway west of Charters is very quiet this morning just the odd very long truck heading in the opposite direction. The railway line is close by on either our left or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":37005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,123],"tags":[129],"class_list":{"0":"post-37002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"category-queensland","9":"tag-country-towns-qld","10":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37002"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37027,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37002\/revisions\/37027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}