Wollomombi Falls

In Oxley Wild Rivers National Park east of Armidale, the Wollomombi is among the highest waterfalls in Australia, dropping in stages more than two hundred metres into a vast gorge cut into the New England tableland. Lookouts on the rim give dizzying views down the sheer walls to the thread of water below and across a wilderness of dry forest and cliff. A walking track descends part-way for those with the legs for the climb back. The falls run hardest after rain and can slow to a trickle in drought, but the gorge itself is always immense.