Things to do

Take your seat on the expansive green space in front of the supersized outdoor screen. Join Q the Stone Curlew on an interactive journey of the story of Quilpie stepping back some 95 million years ago. Screens Tuesday & Thursday nights from 6.00pm. Priced from $28 per person.

Join a private 4WD station tour of The Lake Quilpie, a 2500 acre sheep, beef cattle and Kalahari red goat property – first surveyed in the late 1800s. Min 2 – Max 9 Guests per 1.5 to 2 hour tour. Tours operate Monday, Wednesday & Friday. Priced from $75 per person. Bookings essential.

Head one hour west to Eromanga Natural History Museum – home to Australia’s largest ever dinosaur.  Enjoy light refreshments in the 4th Trochanter Café. Join the one hour **Australian Dinosaur Giants Tour.  4 tours daily.  Priced from $35 per person. **Bookings essential

Drive a short 7.4 kilometres from town centre to Baldy Top Lookout. Explore the caves and crevices of this magnificent boulder formation created millions of years ago. An easy ten minute scramble to the summit but definitely worth the view. Don’t forget our sunset nibbles hamper!

Try your luck at finding your own piece of opal alongside the Warrego Way and Natural Sciences Loop at the Quilpie Shire Council fossicking area, two kilometres west of Quilpie at the Quilpie Airport. Fun for all ages. Fossick for free and no permit is required.

Visit St Finnbarr’s church to see the amazing Opal Altar. Local miner Des Burton was commissioned to install a border of opal around the carving of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour.  Instead, Des offered the Priest ‘a bit on the wall’. This turned out to be almost an entire wall!