Cooee Tours
0409 661 342
15 Min North of Toowoomba

Highfields

The village on Toowoomba's northern doorstep — cafes, boutique shopping, gardens and pioneer heritage along the New England Highway, and the natural first stop on any Crows Nest run.

Toowoomba Tours from $189pp Plan Your Visit
Location15 min north of Toowoomba
EntryFree to explore
Time NeededHalf day
Good ForShopping, cafes, gardens
RouteNew England Highway
Pairs WithSpring Bluff, Crows Nest
About

The Village on the Ridge

Fifteen minutes up the New England Highway, Highfields is where Toowoomba's suburbs give way to the ridge country — a growing village that has kept its country rhythm: cafes and bakeries, boutique and homewares shopping, garden centres, and pioneer heritage attractions that tell the story of the timber-getters and settlers who opened this side of the Range.

For visitors it works two ways: a gentle half-day in its own right, or the opening act of the classic northern run — Highfields for morning tea, Spring Bluff for the gardens, Hampton for lunch, Crows Nest for the falls.

Highlights

What to Do

Village Shopping & Cafes

A relaxed strip of boutiques, homewares, galleries and cafes — the browse-and-brunch morning perfected, without city parking.

Pioneer Heritage

Highfields' settler and timber history is kept alive in its heritage attractions and village museum precincts — an easy add-on with kids or history lovers aboard.

Gateway to the North

Every northern day trip passes through — which makes Highfields the natural fuel, coffee and provisions stop before the Range country opens up.

Highfields features on our Darling Downs group charters — garden clubs love the morning-tea stop.

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Plan Your Visit

The Practical Details

Getting thereNew England Highway, 15 minutes north of the Toowoomba CBD. Easy parking throughout the village.
CostFree to explore; individual attractions set their own entry.
Best timeWeekend mornings for the full village buzz; any day as the northern-run launchpad.
Combine withSpring Bluff (15 min), Hampton (15 min further), Crows Nest (25 min further).
Keep Exploring

Plan the Rest of Your Toowoomba Trip

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Cooee Tours acknowledges the Giabal and Jarowair peoples, Traditional Custodians of the Toowoomba region, and the Jagera people of the foothills and escarpment of the Great Dividing Range. We pay our respects to Elders past and present.