Garden Granite Rock

Take a packed lunch and visit the site of former gold rush market gardens at Garden Granite Rock.

Garden Granite Rock rises about 20m above the sandplain and has a circumference of 1km. This monzogranite is approximately 2.6 billion years old but its weathered domed surface is probably only tens of thousands of years old. As you walk over the rock, look for white/pink feldspar crystals dotted on the surface.

Hard to imagine today, Garden Granite Rock was once the site of market gardens that were established in 1894. It was one of a number of market gardens in and around Cue that supplied the gold rush population with fruit and vegetables.