Nerang National Park, National park in Gold Coast hinterland, Australia
Nerang National Park is a protected area in the Gold Coast hinterland featuring a mix of dry rainforest and open eucalypt woodland. The landscape is shaped by grey gums, blue gums, stringybarks, and tallowwood trees distributed throughout.
The sources do not record when Nerang National Park was gazetted or how its boundaries changed; the only dated event they give is the 2009 under-15 mountain bike world championships held on its fire trails and forest tracks. The park lies 12 km north-west of Surfers Paradise on the north-western edge of Nerang, 70 km south of Brisbane, and is also known as Nerang State Forest.
Nerang National Park lies within the country of the Kombumerri clan, the local Indigenous people for whom the area holds cultural significance. The park's open forest and creeks sit in a landscape the Kombumerri have long used and known.
The park offers several walking tracks, designated mountain bike routes, and horse riding paths for visitors. Campfires and motorized vehicles are not permitted throughout the area.
In 2009 the park hosted the under-15 mountain bike world championships, a fact rarely mentioned in visitor information. The event used the network of fire trails and forest tracks that riders still use today.
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