TYALGUM CREEK, NSW 2484

347 acres at the head of the Oxley River - wrapped on two sides by World Heritage national park, with views of the Mt Warning caldera and the Border Ranges. Set at the very end of a quiet country road, this holding offers a level of privacy, natural beauty and long-term security that is almost impossible to find - anywhere. Nestled into World Heritage rainforest, it is the first land the water touches after leaving the national park - a crystal-clear stream cascading through it. Land like this cannot be created; it can only change hands, and it almost never does. You feel it the moment you arrive: the road opens from closed forest to uninterrupted views up into the Gondwana rainforest mountains, and the world drops away. It feels like the middle of nowhere - yet it is an hour from the Gold Coast international airport, and ten minutes from Tyalgum village. The world and its troubles seem to disappear, because there is no hint of them: no hectic pace, no passing noise - just the forest, the mists, the changing weather, the birds, the sound of the water running down the creek - and the wildlife that lives as though you weren't there: koalas in trees the owners planted fourteen years ago, wallabies resting in their shade, wedgetail eagles soaring above. With sweeping elevated building sites, permanent water and complete seclusion, this is a rare opportunity to establish a private hinterland estate, a wellness or nature-immersion retreat, or a legacy landholding - held as one title, or in time as three blocks of 100 acres and more (STCA) - within easy reach of Byron Bay, the Gold Coast and Brisbane. A sealed driveway already climbs from the end of the road to the highest of them. THE HOMESITES The lay of the land: as you arrive, you are in the cleared forty acres - gentle, open country running from a plateau down to the river. From there the property rises through gentle mid-slopes - timber plantations with cleared ridges between them, dams down either side - then steps up to the elevated country, and runs on through native forest to two mountain plateaus that meet the national park. The river runs the length of the northern boundary. The whole reads less like a farm than a private wilderness reserve that happens to be yours. Three homesites stand out - though the land holds more. The elevated site sits at the end of the sealed driveway in its own three-acre clearing, one of the most elevated positions in the caldera - and the view runs two ways. Out, over the full panorama: the valley below, the caldera around its rim, Wollumbin at the centre. On still mornings the valley fills with mist and this site sits above it - from here, you watch the mountain rise out of the cloud. And up, into the headwaters of the Oxley: the rainforest-covered mountains of the Border Ranges and Limpinwood Nature Reserve, close enough to pick out individual trees on their slopes - and after rain, waterfalls come off the Limpinwood plateau, white lines of water all along the cliffs, pouring straight out of the rainforest above. The second site is the best home site on the property. It sits on the lower plateau, in one of the property's sections of cleared country - around ten acres on the plateau side, and a further thirty cleared, gently sloping acres across the road: a long run of ground facing the mountains, looking up the valley and down to the creek, with easy road access. The plateau carries a genuine 360-degree outlook - the caldera and Mount Warning in the distance, the large, clear, spring-fed dam and the creek flats below - and needs only a short, gently rising driveway from the road. There is room here for a home of any scale - or for more than a home: retreat cabins, camping, a wedding or conference venue. The nearest neighbouring houses sit 500 to 900 metres away - the kind of separation event venues search for and almost never find. All of it can sit together on the plateau, all of it across the road, or split between the two (STCA). Both are a short, gentle walk to the creek. There is enough cleared land here for something special - and not so much that maintaining it becomes the job. That balance is deliberate. A third site, on the cleared ridge in the centre of the property with around five cleared acres, looks to Wollumbin and up the rainforest valley - the natural homesite if the property were ever divided into 2 or 3. All three sites share the same aspect: uninterrupted views north, over forest and valley, to country where nothing will ever be built. WATER SECURITY & NATURAL ENVIRONMENT The property shares its boundary with the national park - protected, in perpetuity, on the land you look out over every day. A crystal-clear rainforest river runs through the property with 1.9km of frontage: waterfalls, swimming holes and rocky flowing reaches. And this is the Oxley - a major tributary of the Tweed - at its headwaters, with nothing upstream but World Heritage rainforest: no farms, no roads, no man-made activity anywhere in the catchment. Many rivers - even some flowing through national parks - carry farm runoff from the country above them. This one arrives absolutely pure. In the driest years, when smaller creeks across the region stop running, this river does not. The household water is gravity-fed from the rainforest, upstream of any farm runoff - no pumps, anywhere on the property, even to the elevated house site - and the fall is there for micro-hydro if you ever wanted it. Several springs run in the hills above the elevated site as well, and with a creek crossing the highest plateaus, virtually every cleared area of the property could be supplied by gravity. The water is so clean you could drink it straight from the stream. And the river is only half the water story. Nine dams sit across the property, six of them linked by a kilometre of water-harvesting swales cut on contour and planted with trees - a system designed to hydrate the landscape and drought-proof the property in its own right, without leaning on the river at all. This is the first privately held land downstream from the Gondwana Rainforests. Even one property downstream is a different thing - there, the water has already crossed other land and other choices. Here, it has crossed nothing but forest. INFRASTRUCTURE & IMPROVEMENTS The whole property is reachable. A sealed driveway serves the elevated country, and shaded, mowed-grass tracks - made for walking or a buggy - run throughout the property. From the top of the property, a private walking track leads toward the historic 1937 Stinson wreck site on the Border Ranges. And across the lower country, the swales trace easy walking lines between the dams. - Two modern 20m x 10m, two-storey, cyclone-rated Rainbuild sheds - five bays each - One fitted as a fully off-grid weekender whilst you build your dream home. - 10kW solar system with 20kWh battery storage - Two engineered all-weather bitumen hardstands - approx. 300m², which turns a B-double, and 200m² for deliveries - New internal fencing and well-formed paddock layout (Existing improvements provide immediate functionality while future owners design and construct their permanent residence, subject to approval.) LOW-MAINTENANCE LAND STEWARDSHIP & LONG-TERM SUSTAINABILITY The land has been carefully managed under organic and regenerative principles for more than 15 years, with a focus on reducing ongoing maintenance and preserving long-term environmental value. A small herd of Lowline Angus rotates through the paddocks and beneath the timber plantations under holistic management - the herd a tool of the land's regeneration and its low-input upkeep, not its purpose. The same quiet cattle that have done this work can stay with the land. Around 40 acres of established timber plantations - hardwoods and cabinet timbers, planted between 2012 and 2016 in mixed species endemic to this country - take the steeper slopes, while the best of the flat land through the property has been kept clear. And the land is actively regenerating itself: red cedars, blue quandongs, silky oaks and other rainforest species rising alongside the planted timber. These forests carry their value standing - as a setting for eco-tourism, they are worth more than the timber in them. As biodiversity and carbon markets mature, that margin only widens. Beyond the plantations, some 210 acres of native forest cover the property's hills and valleys - asking nothing of their owner, a long-term asset in their own right. And the land is actively regenerating itself: red cedars, blue quandongs, silky oaks and other rainforest species rising alongside the planted timber. These forests carry their value standing - as a setting for eco-tourism, they are worth more than the timber in them. As biodiversity and carbon markets mature, that margin only widens. Beyond the plantations, some 210 acres of native forest cover the property's hills and valleys - asking nothing of their owner, a long-term asset in their own right. It is regenerative agriculture on a regenerated landscape, run for what it preserves rather than what it carries. A RARE HOLDING WITH MULTIPLE FUTURE PATHWAYS (STCA) This landholding is ideally suited to: - a private hinterland estate residence - a wellness or nature-immersion retreat eco-tourism, camping or low-impact accommodation boutique horticulture or regenerative land projects - a private, fully off-grid escape - held as-is while longer-term plans take shape - a conservation holding - a shared holding for an extended family, or two or three families - with three homes possible across three titles (STCA) Importantly, the property combines scale, privacy and environmental quality with genuine access and proximity to major lifestyle centres. One title today - three, if you choose. The zoning supports subdivision into three blocks of roughly 100 acres and more, each with its own homesite, its own water and its own outlook, and each able to carry low-impact eco-accommodation under existing pathways. One path has already been proven in a nearby rainforest valley: establish the retreat on 100 acres, subdivide, sell that enterprise - and keep 245 acres at the end of the road, untouched by the sale, exactly as private as the day you bought it. A TIGHTLY HELD VALLEY Most valleys within reach of the coast filled in long ago - more houses each decade, the old holdings cut into smaller and smaller blocks. This one never was. A handful of large landholdings share the single quiet road - three neighbours along its entire length - and on every side the land is held in blocks of hundreds of acres, with national park securing everything beyond. Nothing about this seclusion is temporary. A holding like this could not be bought - so it was made. The land itself cannot be created, but the title could be composed, and the owners spent fifteen years composing it: the neighbouring 140 acres secured at auction, its best forty - the creek flats - joined to this property, so that one title now runs the full sequence from river flats and building ground, through the mid-slopes, to the elevated views. The original subdivision never offered this. It exists because it was built - and with the land around it tightly held, it cannot be assembled again. The core holding has changed hands once in 65 years. In its current form - composed as it is now - it has never been offered before. THE PRICE The price is $4,200,000. This is not a per-acre proposition against grazing country, and reading it that way misses what is for sale. Retreat-grade holdings - the wilderness, the water, the park boundary, the elevation, the infrastructure - trade in their own tier. A handful of properties in the Northern Rivers come close to this one. A limited number exist on the east coast of Australia, and very few of those sit within an easy drive of the Gold Coast and Brisbane. At any given time, almost none are for sale. This is not a per-acre proposition against grazing country, and reading it that way misses what is for sale. Retreat-grade holdings - a crystal-clear river flowing in from the national park above, the very end of a road, national park wrapping two sides, elevated views and cleared building sites - trade in their own tier. The natural features can never be built; the infrastructure already has been. A handful of properties in the Northern Rivers come close to this one. A limited number exist on the east coast of Australia, and very few of those sit within an easy drive of the Gold Coast and Brisbane. At any given time, almost none are for sale. THE OPPORTUNITY If you are seeking a truly private and irreplaceable landholding offering: - absolute seclusion - permanent water security - elevated panoramic building sites - protected natural surroundings and proximity to Byron Bay and the Gold Coast this is one of the most compelling opportunities in the Northern Rivers to create an estate of your own. Offered privately by the owners. Inspection strictly by private appointment.