Limpinwood Nature Reserve, Nature reserve in Northern Rivers, Australia

Limpinwood Nature Reserve covers 2,646 hectares of subtropical rainforest and some wet sclerophyll forest, gazetted in 1963 and enlarged in 1967 and 1988. Hidden and Finches Creeks flow east out of the reserve, and an escarpment rises above 1,000 metres along the state border. The reserve has no formed walking tracks and no public access from the New South Wales side, where private landholdings bound it.

Limpinwood was gazetted as a nature reserve in April 1963 over former fauna and crown reserves, with additions in 1967 and 1988 bringing it to 2,646 hectares. It was dedicated as a Flora Reserve, the highest forest protection status in the Australian national parks system. Before that, the fringes had been logged for red cedar, hoop pine and white beech, with bullock teams dragging out the logs.

The reserve lies on the traditional lands of the Ngandowal and Minyungbal speaking peoples of the Bundjalung Nation. Its name comes from the nearby rural locality of Limpinwood, north-west of the reserve. Because there is no public access from New South Wales, the reserve is managed as an area kept free of human interference, domestic animals and feral pests.

The reserve has no formed walking tracks and no public access from the New South Wales side, where private landholdings bound it. Entry is only through Lamington National Park in Queensland. The escarpment along the state border rises above 1,000 m, and Hidden and Finches Creeks flow east out of the reserve.

The reserve has no formed walking tracks and no public access from New South Wales, where private landholdings bound it; entry is only through Lamington National Park in Queensland. Its escarpment rises above 1,000 m and forms part of the state border.