Texas QLD: What are the best things to do?

Texas, QLD, is on the New South Wales border in the Goondiwindi region of Queensland. The best things to do in Texas include the Texas Heritage Centre and Tobacco Museum, the Texas Rabbit Works and Glenlyon Dam.

3 best things to do in Texas, QLD

The best things to do in Texas, QLD, are:

Learn about the failed tobacco industry at the Texas Heritage Centre & Tobacco Museum.
Discover the much more successful rabbit-processing industry at the Texas Rabbit Works.
Go fishing and boating at Lake Glenlyon.

Which country is Texas in? If you said the United States, you would be right. But you’d also be right if you said Australia. There’s a Texas in Queensland, although very few people will have cause to visit.

Sunset in Texas QLD — Sunset in Texas, QLD. Photo courtesy of Tourism and Events Queensland.

Where is Texas, QLD?

Texas, QLD, is a rural town at the eastern end of the Goondiwindi region, to the west of the Granite Belt and right on the New South Wales border. It’s a 304km drive south-west of Brisbane. You might conceivably pass nearby if you’re driving the inland route from Brisbane to Melbourne.

Things to do in Texas, QLD

Texas is mainly a regional service town, but it does have a couple of museums that are surprisingly interesting. The Texas Heritage Centre and Tobacco Museum is essentially a bog-standard local history museum with a few old buildings to explore. These include a farm shed, mission hall, jail, smithy, harness shed and shearing shed.

But the Texas Heritage Centre and Tobacco Museum also goes into the town’s not especially successful tobacco industry. The original tobacco factory was wiped out by a flood in 1890, and the whole town moved 2km further away from the bank of the Dumaresq River as a result.

What to do in Texas, QLD: Texas Rabbit Works

Perhaps more fascinating is the Texas Rabbit Works. When it closed in 1992, it was the last remaining rabbit processing factory in Australia. But between the 1930s and 1960s, it did tremendous business. Rabbits were flooding the region in plague-like proportion. Locals made a living catching said rabbits, and selling them for export to the US and UK.

Since 2017, the Texas Rabbit Works has been a museum, detailing the rabbit-processing industry. It’s niche, but certainly something different.

Glenlyon Dam near Texas, QLD

The main attraction near Texas, QLD, is Lake Glenlyon. Sometimes known as the Pike Creek Reservoir, or the Glenlyon Dam after the dam on Pike Creek, Lake Glenlyon is popular for camping, fishing and boating. The Glenlyon Dam is around 49km south-east of Texas.

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