Coonamble Shire Council welcomes you. Ours is a place where the Warrumbungle National Park crowds the horizon in the east and the wetlands of the Macquarie Marshes shimmer to the west.  A place where the clear starry nights invite stargazing, campfires and a boiling billy.  A place where the sunlit plains light up to rodeos, polocrosse, picnic races and farming life. 

Coonamble Shire residents and visitors enjoy all aspects of country living and more.  As a service centre to the west, it offers a range of shopping experiences, from food and clothing to various secondary industries.  It is central to a range of visitor experiences including day tripping to the opal fields of the north, the cotton fields to the west, the Warrumbungles to the east and the Western Plains Zoo to the south.  The Pilliga State Forest with its stands of eucalypts and salt caves is yet another natural attraction within easy reach. 

Coonamble also offers a full calendar of cultural and sporting events that entice many a traveller to stop and stay!

Coonamble is renowned for its diversified rural industries, which include extensive broadacre cropping, plus large cattle and sheep populations -  making the Coonamble district one of the most productive in the state.   

LOCATION

Coonamble is located on the underground Castlereagh River in the north – west of NSW, approximately 1 ½ hours drive from Dubbo, 6.5 hours drive from Sydney and 8 hours drive to Brisbane.  Coonamble is situated on the "Great Inland Way".  As a "flat track", the Great Inland Way is a great alternate route between Queensland and the southern states.