ilfracombe machinery & heritage museum

Ilfracombe is only 20 minutes' drive from Longreach and definitely worth a stop. It features a wonderful, character-filled, old country pub (the Wellshot), an excellent caravan park and a very interesting 'mile of machinery' along the road through town where an assortment of vehicles, motors and other implements that have played a role in local history are lined up. It does perhaps get a bit overwhelming after a while but there are some beautifully preserved old motors on display.

Awesome machinery well worth a lookDidn't actually go in but took some pics on the way past.We like looking at the old vehicles & machinery

We stayed in Ilffracombe caravan park [excellent] and loved this little gem of outback Queensland. We were able to explore everything Longreach had to offer from here as well. We spent two days exploring everything Ilffracombe had to offer. The Machinery Mile [ free] was most enjoyable and an excellent display of Queensland pastral history told through the machine that made development possible, including an army tank.The Machinery Mile is part of the outdoor Ilffracombe Museum and really is a mile long strip of machinery all set out on concrete slabs with information panels on each piece of machinery. Ilffracombe has many other interesting gems, Langenbaker House, great story to it! [ guided tours by Caravan Park owner] an Artesian Spa [ $2.60], Hilton's Corner, lots of quirky collections, Romani Hall, and the stories of Ilffracombe 2/14th Lighthorse in Egypt, Gun and Bottle collections, Wellshot Hotel, Wellshot Centre [ historical home] and more!!

What an interesting little town and remember to go to the swimming pool from heated underground water

Around half an hour or so from Longreach. The highway heads straight through a small country town of Ilfracombe. We heard about Ilfracombe on the 'caravan park grapevine' whilst we were in Charleville. We had already prepaid and prebooked our accommodation so couldn't stay at the local caravan park for the stories and poems, our loss it seems :) we were able to stop for a cuppa break at the open air museum just on the edge of town. The community set this site up and look after it all. Easily to spot by the line of old cars and machinery used for the land. Well set out and thought out. Two to three large shed house a great collection of sorts from bottles, rifles and a salute to the local men who made up a Light Horses regiment in the first world war. We worth a stop and a browse. We did on the way west and the way back. enjoyed it both times!!