Numinbah Nature Reserve, Nature reserve in Northern Rivers region, New South Wales

Numinbah Nature Reserve is a protected area of 858 hectares in the Border Ranges, northeast of the rural locality of Numinbah and south of Springbrook. It lies within the Mount Warning/Tweed caldera and defines part of the New South Wales–Queensland border. An escarpment rises over 1,000 metres above sea level, with rhyolite cliffs above subtropical rainforest and some wet sclerophyll forest.

Numinbah Nature Reserve was gazetted in December 1981, and an addition in 1989 brought it to its current 858 hectares. It lies within the Mount Warning/Tweed caldera in the Border Ranges, part of the Shield Volcano group of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1986 and added to the Australian National Heritage List in 2007.

The reserve supports rare bird species that depend on the rainforest and wet forest habitats for survival. Walking through the forest, you will see why these birds choose this place as their home.

Visitors can access the reserve using public roads and should prepare for varied weather conditions and steep terrain. Detailed maps and current information about trails are available at the nearest information office.

The Antarctic beech stand occupies one hectare within a 2.9-hectare cool temperate rainforest patch at Best-of-all Lookout. Many trees grow as a stunted thicket, with stems rising from massive, gnarled roots above the ground. A much-photographed triple-stemmed tree stands just south of the state border and is considered very old.