Winton

Winton is located in Central Western Queensland about 180 Kms northwest of Longreach. The area is home to diverse landscapes, beautiful red earth, spinifex, undulating plains, flat toped ridges with steep escarpments and dry channel beds waiting for the wet season, and of course FLIES ! ! ! Rich in history with links to the Great Shearers' strike, Waltzing Matilda and Qantas. The area has a new added attraction of even older history, in fact ancient history with the discovery of Dinosaurs !!
Photos attached
Early Qantas reference
Horse and buggy rides in main Street
Duncan playing his version of "Waltzing Matilda" on an outback junkyard set of drums.
Banjo Paterson Statue outside the Waltzing Matilda Center.
The North Gregory Hotel where the first recital of Waltzing Matilda took place on April 6th 1895
The Tattersalls Hotel - Winton's oldest public bar was at the site of this hotel in 1882-the lower floor of the current hotel dates back to 1885, second floor to 1914.Read more