Historic Warialda was the Administrative Headquarters for the Gwydir Squatting District in the colony of New South Wales and site of the first Police
Station in the region. The town is surrounded by picturesque bushlands and has a great variety of wildflowers. There are numerous places to picnic and
Cranky Rock nature reserve offers many hours of fossicking, bird watching and exploring. The stones to be found locally in gravel quarries are petrified
wood, jasper, chert, agate and chalcedony.
Warialda is part of "Fossickers Way"Tourist route , towns on this route include Nundle, Tamwoth, Manilla, Barraba, Bingara, Warialda, Inverell, Glen
Innes and Emmaville/Deepwater. Warialda is also the southern most town on the newly developed Rural Get-A-Way Tourist route running from Warialda
to Mundubberra providing the most direct route from Sydney to Rockhampton.
