Biloela

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Biloela is a growing rural town with a very diverse agricultural industry including cotton, sorghum, wheat, herbs and spices. There is also a huge cattle industry with the largest number of cattle of any Shire in Queensland.

It is home to the "silo-in-the city", a huge silo that can be seen for 10 kilometres. The Town is also the centre of the Banana Shire, but there are no bananas grown in the shire. The name came from a dun-coloured bullock, named Banana, which worked on a property in the region in the mid 19th century.

Biloela's biggest attraction is The SILO. More than 28 metres high, it is filled, not with grain, but with an array of displays about primary industry. The SILO situated in Exhibition street gives an insight into cotton production, stud and dairy cattle, redclaw and ostrich farming, grain production and landcare.

Visit nearby Kroombit National Park sandstone escarpment with spectacular views , subtropical rainforest and palm fringed waterfalls. Final resting place of the Beautiful Betsy, an aircraft which went missing in World War Two.

Features

Stare up at the huge “silo-in-the-city” which can be seen from 10km
See Bell's Creek Conservation Park, near Goovigen
See the cattle industry in full flow, with the largest number of cattle of any Shire in Queensland
Kroombit Tops National Park - see the resting place of the WWII Liberator Bomber "Beautiful Betsy"
Kroombit Tourist Park - working cattle station, accommodation, rural experience
Visit the Spirit of the Land mural on State Farm Road depicting the history of women of the Banana Shire
Explore the Historical Village at Baralaba
Visit Mt Scoria, the 'musical mountain' near Thangool, walk the tracks around it, take a picnic or enjoy the barbeque facilities