About Minyon Falls
Minyon Falls was a tall and wispy 100m waterfall in the lush Nightcap National Park near Lismore. We managed to visit this falls while doing a fairly extensive out-and-back half-day trip from Byron Bay. I guess the light-flowing state of this falls was actually better performing than much of the photographs we had seen in the literature prior to our visit in May 2008. Thus, I believe that the falls would flow best during the monsoonal rains of the Wet Season and would quickly diminish after a few weeks without rain given its apparent short season. We tried to time our visit for that transition period from the Wet to the Dry, and the photo you see at the top of this page was our result.
Julie and I were able to experience the falls from a lookout at its very top while also from a lookout platform further downstream at the Minyon Grass. Both areas were accessible from separate car parks (see directions below). We didn’t do the three-hour, 4km one-way hike to the base of the falls that was said to involve a 200m bouldery stream scramble as well as a rapid descent into a rainforest full of palm trees. The lookout at the top of the falls featured a panorama of the Bangalow Palm rainforest below. There was also another one-hour, 2km one-way hike from Minyon Grass to the base of the falls.
To illustrate how easy it was to get to these lookouts, we spent about 15 minutes away from the car at the top of the falls, and then we spent another 5 minutes away from the car at the Minyon Grass Lookout. Had the falls been flowing better, we might have decided to try the longer loop walk said to require five hours or 7.5km overall.
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Mongrel Bastards Mountain Bike Club April 27, 2011 2:26 am - As a Queenslander in 'enemy territory' I was lucky enough to be allowed to tag along on a 75km mountain bike ride that started at Eltham to the South, took in Minyon Falls and looped back. It's an annual event hosted by the affectionately named "Mongrel Bastards Mountain Bike Club" in Lismore. Don't let the… ...Read MoreNearest Waterfalls
