Tweed Coast

The Tweed Coast region in Northern NSW offers a wealth of holiday experiences. The Tweed Coast NSW offers adventures from lush World Heritage listed rainforests and farmland to golden beaches and ocean adventures. Whether you’re looking for a tropical rainforest escape, a relaxing seaside holiday or a plethora of activities and entertainment, the Tweed Coast region of New South Wales offers the best of all possible worlds.

The Tweed Coast offers accommodation types to suit all styles and tastes.

The Tweed region offers a stunningly beautiful mix of unspoiled natural experiences, world class entertainment facilities, historic villages, arts and cultural treasures. The area is centred around the Tweed Caldera, the world’s second largest extinct volcano crater. Mt Warning, or Wollumbin (meaning Cloud Catcher) as the local aboriginal community knows it, stands sentinel as its core.

The area is home to kilometres of unspoiled coastline and an amazing five world heritage National Parks abounding with rich and bio-diverse rainforest. Whether you are interested in world renowned surfing and swimming beaches, fishing or boating along the beautiful Tweed River or exploring the hidden treasures of the hinterland there is plenty to offer. Throughout the Tweed region there is a diverse range of accommodation, activities, dining and shopping to suit all tastes and budgets, which combine to offer the visitor a truly unforgettable experience.

The Tweed Coast region incorporates many localised regions such as: Tweed Heads, Banora Point, Terranora, Kingscliff, Fingal Head, Chinderah and Cudgen. Tweed Heads is as far north as you can get in NSW, with the town abutting the Queensland border.

With Coolangatta in Queensland, both areas are known as the Twin Towns. Given its closeness to the Gold Coast, Tweed Heads has a shared economy with Coolangatta based heavily on tourism.

Tweed Heads

Beautiful golden beaches, a wide range of eateries and spectacular lookouts make the Tweed Heads/Coolangatta region a popular holiday destination. Tweed Heads began to grow from 1870 after a pilot station was opened on the Tweed River. Today, beautiful golden beaches, a wide range of eateries and spectacular lookouts make the Tweed Heads/Coolangatta region a popular holiday destination. Point Danger lookout is situated on the New South Wales / Queensland border.

High on a peak overlooking Duranbah Beach, which is popular for surfing, Point Danger was named by Captain James Cook as he sailed up the east coast of Australia to warn of dangerous coral reefs off the coast. There are many activities to be enjoyed at Tweed Heads. Hire a boat and explore the Tweed River, enjoy a cruise and learn more about the region's history, or try your hand at fishing and crabbing.

Fingal Head

A popular attraction at Fingal Head is the Fingal Lighthouse and a long walk along the lovely beach can give one a chance to really 'chill out'. A swim on the way is a nice way to cool down on a hot day. The beach and lighthouse can be reached through remnant coast rainforest which is being regenerated by the nationally recognised and award winning efforts of local enthusiasts.

Kingscliff

Just south of Tweed Heads, Kingscliff is a beach community, offering a wide variety of holiday accommodation. It is a popular family destination and provides beach and estuary access for swimming, surfing, fishing and water sports. It has a friendly village atmosphere with a population of approx 4,500. From Kingscliff there is easy access to Mt Warning and the World Heritage National Parks, cruises along the Tweed River and club style entertainment at Tweed Heads. Fishing, a keen attraction is easily accessable either along the local creek, Tweed River, or ocean front.

Chinderah

Chinderah is an historic village stretched along the wide lower reaches of the Tweed River and provides a good standard of caravan parks and motel accommodation. Not only will you find a boat ramp, great fishing from the old Barneys Point Bridge and numerous riverside picnic spots but if you don't catch anything you can go to one of the fish and chip shops in the area. Two historic cemeteries contain the graves of original pioneering families and the South Sea Islander immigrants who were used to establish the sugar cane industry in the Tweed. Now you can wander through an art gallery, antique shop, relax in the cafe or have a cool drink in the hotel all beside the river.