Collinsville - Strathmore - Heidelburg - Burdekin Dam - Towing

Just go to this PAGE and open the river height data with the Burdekin River in it and scroll down to the Burdekin River at the Burdekin dam. This will show the Burdekin is about 600mm below the spillway. The data is up to date.

There is a National Parks office at the dam so give them a call. The road From Bowen to well beyond Collinsville is a good sealed road. I think it is sealed most of the way to Mt. Coolon. I can't find Strathmore and Heidelberg on my map but I assume that they are not only suburbs of Melbourne. The road is sealed from the dam back to the Flinders highway but has cattle wandering over it for much of the journey.

I have hot driven between Collinsville and the dam but I was involved in heavy transport in that part of Queensland years ago and we used to send some rather large trucks through there quite often. So, like all gravel roads, its condition will depend on when it was last graded.

Give yourself a bit of time to call at Ravenswood. It has stacks of history and some great heritage buildings.

Here is a photo of the dam. You can see the road running alolg the bottom of the wall.



Cheers, Kevin

Kevin
"Strathmore" is a cattle station about 25km west of Collinsville, though I'm struggling to remember the exact distance from when I worked on it briefly about 35 years ago. It straddled the Burdekin
Mark

Tanks Mate. I'll go back to my map and have another look.

Cheers, Kevin