Coonamble
Explore all there is to see and do in the Coonamble Shire! Surrounded by the Macquarie Marshes, the Warrumbungle National Park, and the Pilliga State Forest there are limitless opportunities for exploring the region’s natural wonders!
Renowned for it’s diversified agricultural industries, including broadacre cropping, and large cattle and sheep production the Coonamble Shire is one of the most productive agricultural regions in Western NSW.
Part of the ‘Great Inland Way’ Coonamble is situated on the ‘underground’ Castlereagh River in North-West NSW, approximately 6.5 hours drive from Sydney.
Regional snapshot
Coonamble (2829) is a town in regional New South Wales. It is about 418 kms from NSW’s capital city of Sydney. Coonamble is in the federal electorate of Parkes. In the 2016 Census the population of Coonamble was 2,749.
Johnny Dunn the bushranger and last of the Ben Hall gang was captured near Coonamble after a gunbattle with Police at Christmas 1865.
Coonamble hosts an annual rodeo that is the largest campdraft/rodeo in the Southern Hemisphere around 1,000 people annually come to compete in the rodeo with an average of about 4,000 spectators. More Information
Coonamble has its own local radio station, MTM 91.9FM, which has a wide variety of music from country to modern.