The New England area is situated on the Great Dividing Range throughout the northern part of New South Wales to the Queensland border. The region is a rich agricultural area and contains many national parks. It is also home to the Southern Hemisphere's largest granite monolith.

Whatever the season the region offers something delightful. The area is renowned for the great country hospitality and is a display of rural Australia at its best. Visitors enjoy the cool summers, colourful autumn, warm hearty winters and fresh country spring. Whatever the season the region won’t leave you disappointed. Look no further for a holiday destination that will expand your horizons.

The city of Tamworth is the country music capital of Australia. The town can double its population during its 10 day country musical festival in January. Tamworth is also a great place to visit to see one of Australia’s biggest agricultural areas. This is a great place to see how Australian farms are run and even experience staying on a farm with home cooked country dinners.

Armidale is one of largest towns in the New England Area and is known as a university city with the University of New England found here as well as several higher education colleges and a number of private schools. Surrounded by exhilarating mountain scenery the town is almost 10% parkland and has a number of impressive public buildings including the majestic Catholic Cathedral of St Mary, which towers over Central Park. It offers a diverse range of activities such as horse riding, abseiling, fishing, fossicking, bushwalking and other sporting facilities.

The small towns of Glen Innes and Inverell are located in this region and are worth visiting for there own reasons. Glen Innes is known for its sapphire mining and visitors can mine for sapphires when they visit. Inverell is quite a historic town with many old buildings and a mining museum. Inverell is also known for its silver and sapphire mining.

Gunnedah is located 85km north west of Tamworth on the Namoi River and is one of the largest centres for wheat and stock sales in Australia. Cumbo Gunnerah, the respected leader of the Gunnedarr people, immortalised in Ion Idreiss' book "The Red Chief", was buried here in the late 1700s. In 1984 a bronze sculpture was erected in his memory.

The town of Tenterfield is located at the joining point of the New England and Bruxner Highways. It is the most northerly town in New South Wales and is the last stopping point before you reach Queensland. Australian singer Peter Allen paid tribute to this town in his song "Tenterfield Sadler"

New South Wales lies in the temperate zone and the climate is generally free from extremes of heat and cold. The greatest heat is usually experienced in the north west and out back regions of NSW. The coldest region is the Snowy Mountains, where winter frosts and snow are experienced over long periods. Rainfall varies widely over the state, gradually diminishing to an annual average of 180 mm in the far north west.

The climate along the coast is temperate and slightly humid in NSW and the temperatures get cooler the further south you travel along the coast. The deserts of the outback regions experience hot days and cold nights. Irregular floods and droughts occur in the north and western regions, some times due to the El Nino effect.