The Poets Route
The Pub Route
Distance
527km
Pub Stops
5
Duration
1-3 Days
Drive Time
8hrs
This long loop crosses the Warrego, Cuttaburra and Irara Rivers and also crosses the Queensland Border into the adjacent township of Hungerford.
This area of the Bourke Shire is famous for its association with great Australian poets like Henry Lawson, Scottish born Will Ogilvie, and the ill-fated Harry ‘Breaker’ Morant.
The Poets Route follows the Warrego and Cuttaburra Rivers, along with the various tributaries which go to make up the vast depression ephemeral wetland of the Cuttaburra Basin. This journey follows the footsteps of Henry Lawson who famously walked to Hungerford in the Summer of 1892-93 and which has been termed ‘the most important treks in Australian Literary History’.
