Nogo Station Experience

Nogo Station

Nogo Station is a historic homestead built in the 1880s, approximately 15 kilometres from the centre of Longreach.

At Nogo Station, visitors go to the shearing shed to see a Outback Pioneers' shearer at work and learn about the importance of sheep and wool in Australia’s development.

Visitors to Nogo Station appreciate the outback landscape and gain fascinating insights into pioneer methods and present day outback life. The property has a billabong reported to be used by legendary local cattle thief Captain Starlight (Harry Redford) to water his stolen cattle. Also stockyard ruins believed to have been where he kept stolen cattle before his notorious journey south.

The homestead opens during tour season (April - to October) providing an insight into pioneer times.

Outback Pioneers

Outback Pioneers is a family owned and operated tourism business, based in Longreach, Queensland. Their tourism experiences include the famous Cobb & Co Stagecoach Experience, Starlight’s Cruise Experience on the Thomson River, Nogo Station Experience and the Winton Discovery Experience.

The Kinnons have also made accommodation an attraction in its own right with heritage-inspired 4½-star Homestead Stables, 4-star Pioneer Slab Huts and 3½-star Outback Lodges at their Outback Accommodation site, close to Longreach’s other main attractions.

The Station Store - an outback shopping emporium and The Welcome Home Café and Tearoom in Longreach's main street are also part of the outback pioneering experience for visitors.

Welcome to Kinnon & Co

Introduction to Kinnon & Co's Nogo Station Experience, Starlights Cruise Experience, Starlights Spectacular Light & Sound Picture Show, Cobb & Co Experience, Harry Redford Old Time Tent Show, Winton Discovery Experience and Outback Accommodation.

Outback Pioneers Starlights Spectacular Experience in Longreach

This is where you listen to bush poetry, mingle around the fire, listen to stories from the Kinnon family, and eat if you get the Big 3 Pass which includes the Outback Pioneers Thomson River Sunset Dinner Cruise and also the Starlight’s Spectacular Sound and Light Show.

We had already done the Outback Pioneers Cobb & Co Stagecoach Experience in the morning so this was turning out to be one of the best days in our Outback Queensland Road Trip so far.

The whole process of being picked up by the bus at your accommodation, the cruise, the meal, the movie, and the trip home was awesome with too many highlights to name.

You can see what we did on our Outback Queensland Road Trip here,

Or you can check out what else I have been up to here....

or here

live Interview with James Walker Owner of Camden Park Station, Jackaroo and Australian Farmer Of The

Life in the outback - The amazing Fraser Range Station

more info: wheresmypretzel.com

Music: Face Off by Scomber (c) 2013 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. Ft: Brad Sucks

Cobb & Co Stagecoach Experience, Longreach (Cobb and Co)

During a visit to Longreach, Western Queensland, earlier this year, we were fortunate enough to have the opportunity to ride on a replica of a Cobb & Co Stagecoach as part of Outback Pioneers' Stagecoach Experience. Cobb & Co Stagecoaches ran in Queensland between 1865 and 1924, not only providing transport for passengers and mail, but also bringing mail order goods to remote communities. At the peak of their operations, they had 40,000 horses available, with 6,000 horses per day actually hauling the coaches, working in teams of five. A coach would travel about 50 miles (80 km) per day, passengers paying a fare of about $2, which is equivalent to $400 at today’s rates! The Kinnon family have established an incredible setup in Longreach. Their operations, known as Outback Pioneers, are centred around the beautifully restored Welcome Home Café and Tearoom. Their Cobb & Co Stagecoach Experience offers the opportunity to experience what it was like to ride in one of these wonderful old coaches, heading out of town and off onto unsealed, dusty tracks. What’s more, this is one of the very few places in the world where you can still experience what it was like to gallop along in such a vehicle along outback tracks, something the actual coaches would have to do when trying to outrun a storm! Outback Pioneers also offer a variety of other experiences, including a cruise on the Thomson River aboard a beautiful old wooden paddle steamer followed by a stockman’s campfire dinner. They also run a tour of the restored homestead at Nogo Station, complete with a station tour aboard an open top bus and a shearing demo in a working wooden shearing shed. They can even provide accommodation in Longreach, excellent evening meals at the atmospheric, period furnished Stonegrill Restaurant and souvenirs from the Station Store.

Welcome to Outback Pioneers, Longreach. Multi-award-winning experiences and holidays

Outback Pioneers brings outback pioneering spirit to life with
ingenious and much-loved experiences and holidays in Longreach,
Queensland. Here heritage meets quirky humour, big landscapes
meet big hearts as the Kinnon family share their outback lifestyle and
insights into iconic Australian culture. Guests can unleash their own
pioneering spirit with experiences like the Cobb & Co Stagecoach
Experience, the Starlight’s Cruise Experience and Nogo Station
Experience. Restored heritage buildings The Station Store and The
Welcome Home also help tell the local story. Everything comes from
the family’s passion for educating and inspiring visitors to experience
and preserve the real Australian outback.

Kinnon & Co - Cobb & Co Longreach experience

A short video from our Cobb & Co Coach ride in Longreach. A great experience.

Outback Pioneers Stagecoach Ride in Longreach

This is the what you travel on for Outback Pioneers Stagecoach ride.

We are in Longreach for our Outback Queensland Road Trip and before we left we booked a the Outback Pioneers Big 3 Pass for our family which includes the Cobb & Co Stagecoach Experience.

This experience gives you a stagecoach ride, smoko / morning tea after the ride, a live show called the Harry Redford Old Time Tent Show, and you watch a movie in the Outback Pioneers theatre.

So this is a short video of the stagecoach and the horses.

This is what you spend 45 minutes on when you do the Outback Pioneers Stagecoach ride.

It was a pretty good morning!

You can see what we did on our Outback Queensland Road Trip here,

Or you can check out what else I have been up to here....

or here

What's Up Downunder S05 Ep23 - River Cruise Kinnon & Co Longreach QLD

Frankie J Holden takes us back in time on a river cruise on the Thomson River Belle

Longreach Cobb & Co HD

Produced by Alpha Video Productions

WUDU S08E19: Outback Pioneers Stagecoach Ride

While in Longreach, Tania & Macca catch a ride with Outback Pioneers Stagecoach Ride and are joined by a surprise visitor.









What’s Up Down Under:

whatsupdownunder.com.au
facebook.com/WhatsUpDownunder

Outback Pioneers:

outbackpioneers.com.au

2012 Scholar James Walker, Longreach QLD - Financial Literacy

James Walker, a 2012 Nuffield Scholar, reports to the Nuffield National Conference, Launceston September 2014.. His topic was Financial Literacy.

Radio Graham - Outback Australia Five

In this episode we visit the Longreach Pastoral College (in outback Queensland) where students learn how to break in horses. It's a skill they will need on vast outback sheep and cattle stations.

Men's Muster on Tyrone Station Queensland Australia with Steve Kennedy

A gathering of men in the outback of Australia for a weekend of food, fun and fellowship. A blokes camp where delegates from all over Queensland enjoy meeting new friends,shooting and hunting and have the opportunity for a fresh encounter with God.Encouraged by guest speaker Ps Steve Kennedy.

Outback Heritage - Cobb and Co

Richard Kinnon talks about his Cobb and Co coach experience. Part of the Outback Pioneers operation in the Outback at Longreach.

Muttaburra

Bush campin

Cobb&Co with intro

The Station Store in Longreach Australia offers a Cobb&Co coach ride.
presented by Graham Rodger

Kinnon & Co Thomson River Cruises

More than just a river cruise! Watch the sun set while cruising on the historic Thomson Belle Paddlewheeler or Thomson Princess Riverboat. Afterwards, on the banks, enjoy bush poetry and dinner around the campfire then be immersed in the spirit of Harry Redford in the NEW Starlight's Spectacular Sound-and-Light Show.