| Cooroy is a traditional country town with its prize winning
streetscaping and community artwork is worth a visit
with its urban village like atmosphere. Cooroy started as a camp for timber workers in 1863.
The railway came to Cooroy in 1891 and soon after the
main street started to develop. The town relied on the
sawmills and local dairies and was a prosperous town
until the collapse of the dairy and fruit growing industries
in the the 1970's. Cooroy is now famous for Cooroy Water which flows from Cooroy Mountain and sold all over Australia.
At the end of Maple Street is the Cooroy Butter Factory
(07 5442 5055) which hosts local and interstate art.
The Cooroy Butter Factory opened in 1915 and closed
in 1975. The Noosa Alpaca Shop and Information Centre (07 5442
5151) at 327 Dath Henderson Road has a collection of
alpaca and number of alpaca products for sale, open
10 – 4. Cooroy Community Markets are held at the
RSL Hall, Maple Street (07 5441 6386) every Thursday
from 8am - 1pm and sell a range of goods. Cooroy has a good collection of restaurants.
Cooroy is about 15 minutes drive from Noosa and easily reached by bus. Cooroy has a rail station that connects with Brisbane and is an entry point for Noosa. Buses connect Noosa with Cooroy.
Click here for Cooroy Accommodation.
Lake MacDonald Botanical Gardens
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Work commenced in 1987 to create
some magnificent botanic gardens on the site of
a rubbish tip at Lake Macdonald. Around 80 per
cent of the plants in the garden are native species
and home to tortoises and 40 varieties of birds
make for a very pleasant place to walk around.
The gardens are located on Lake Macdonald Drive
just before you reach Cooroy from Noosa. Ida Duncan
who founded the gardens had a vision that a rubbish
tip was not the correct use of land and she planted
native trees all over the land. The gardens cover
20 acres and have an amphitheatre in the gardens
used for concerts and weddings and other noosa
events. For more information please download the
PDF by clicking
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