Mt Canoboalas & Lake Canobalas

Saturday 16th February 2013 We travel to Orange once per week to grocery shop. We decided to visit Mt Canobolas which is of volcanic origin. It is located 13 kilometres southwest of Orange. Mount Canobolas, at an altitude of 1,395 metres above sea level, is the highest mountain in the central tablelands district. The northern slopes of the mountain, with fertile volcanic soil, are becoming a popular cold-climate wine producing area. We travelled along a narrow road with small amount of gravel to drive to the summit, half way up the mountain is a warning to use chains on tyres during winter & snow. At the top it seems that you can see forever - beautiful. The top of the mountain is now dominated by numerous towers used for television and radio transmissions across large areas of central New South Wales. These transmitters include towers for Airservices Australia, Royal Australian Air Force, Prime Television, WIN Television, Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Southern Cross Ten. We then drove to Lake Canobolas which is small but the picnic area is quite picturesque.