Mount Warning is a spectacular sight from any angle whether it is a glimpse from the road or a view from Razorback Lookout Tweed Heads or perhaps taking the hiking trail to the summit. Mount Warning’s impact on the Gold Coast and Northern NSW can be seen from a number of locations Burleigh Headland National Park being just one of them.

However the magnitude of Mt Warning’s present can best be seen from the air while flying south especially during the clear days of winter, when the air is cool and crisp and summers heat haze as long disappeared.

Mount Warning from the air

Looking beyond the coastline the plane heads south from Gold Coast International Airport and there below is Mount Tallebudgera and the Cougal Twin Peaks, and Springbrook Plateau. Mount Warning comes into view it doesn’t seem so foreboding from this perspective as the aircraft course takes us over the summit.
The whole caldron is now visible, the mountains watching over the deep impression made in the valley floor thousands of years ago. It resembles a huge crater covered with lush vegetation with steep sweeping slopes and ridges running up to meet the peaks like a giant child’s open hand gouging out the sand to create a hole at the beach.

Leaving the beautiful Gold Coast by plane is a sight to see, the sweep of the coastline is stunning in both directions, Coolangatta, Point Danger and the notorious Tweed Bar, take note next time you fly south, if everything lines up, clear weather take the opportunity to see this World Heritage Listed location below.

Resource Pages

This page below is an account of my last walk up Mount Warning hiking trail

Razorback Lookout is in Tweed Heads, from this lookout you can see Mount Warning watching over the Tweed Valley.