30 May - 09 June
Wintersun
Coolangatta
Wintersun is Australia’s leading annual Retro Nostalgia Festival and features over 1500 Hot Rods, Custom and Classic Cars; more than 100 bands and performers; dancing; movies; and competitions. The festival is held on the border coastal towns of Coolangatta and Tweed Heads on the QLD and NSW borders. Many of the Wintersun events and activities are free to attend and are scattered throughout the area.
Visit Translink.com.au to view your personal journey planner or drive and park in any of the carparks available in Coolangatta.
Event details
- Type:
- Public
- Cost:
- Free
- Website:
- http://www.wintersun.org.au/index.ews
- Telephone:
- +61 7 5536 9509
- Address:
-
Marine Parade
Coolangatta QLD 4225 - Time:
- Various
Event location
Coolangatta information
This southern city lies close to the Queensland and New South Wales border. Gold Coast Airport is based here and its possible to fly to the southern area of the Great Barrier Reef and back from Gold Coast in a day. So you can have it all!
Coolangatta is a great introduction to Queensland. North-facing beaches Greenmount and Rainbow Bay are popular swimming and surfing beaches . Walk around the connecting headland between Greenmount and Coolangatta, and theres wheelchair accessible paths.
Beach anglers fish for bream, snapper or tailor. Snapper Rocks and Duranbah known as Flagstaff beach is renowned for its great surfing.
Coolangatta and nearby Tweed has historic links. Captain Cook named Point Danger and Mount Warning as he sailed up the coast in 1770. The Tweed River was developed as a port from the 1830s to ship cedar.
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