Armidale Attractions

The Armidale Folk Museum, housed in a Victorian building, displays pioneer relics.

In the New England Regional Art Museum is the valuable Hinton Collection.

This collection features 1000 works of art from artists in Australia during the period 1880 to 1948.

The Chandler Coventry Collection is one of the most important private collections of contemporary Australian Art. It contains 400 works of art.

90,000ha

This national park was formed by the amalgamation of the Apsley Gorge and Yarrowitch Gorge National Parks. Wild winding rivers, waterfalls (including the 457m high Wollomombi Falls, the Chandler Falls and the Apsley Falls) and deep gorges.

There are camp sites and picnic areas at the waterfalls; bush walking, rock climbing, canoeing, fishing; viewpoints.

The University of New England features a spacious campus with a kangaroo and deer park.

The University was originally founded in 1938 as the New England University College. The campus consists of the old homestead, 'Booloominbah', together with several other buildings and over 260 ha of land.

Booloominbah is a Queen Anne style building that was completed in 1888 and became the New England University College in 1938.

Hillgrove is an old gold-mining settlement with a museum.

The town of Hillgrove was established in 1884 but began to decline after 1900.

From Yarrowyck there is a trail to Aboriginal cave paintings.