Kootingal: Horse Riding, Sports and Memorial Sites

Kootingal offers a range of reasons to explore the town: two-hour horse rides, sports facilities at the Recreation Reserve and memorial sites at Memory Park. The swimming pool and the Kootingal Hotel add to the options. If you’re planning a trip, you can first consider whether you’d like your stay to centre on a horse ride, some local exercise or a visit to the memorial park.

Horse rides and views of Mulla Creek

Tamworth and Kootingal Horse Riding Adventures offers two-hour horse rides. They start three times a day, seven days a week. The duration and multiple daily start times give the activity a clear time frame. When planning your trip, you can therefore consider whether a ride fits in with your other plans, without setting aside the whole day for riding.

The same operator’s Swamp Oak Station Tour offers a different perspective, with views of Mulla Creek and the Cockburn Ranges. If you’re looking for scenic views on an outing, you can consider this tour as a separate option. The viewpoints and the two-hour rides offer different starting points for planning; the stated duration applies to the rides.

Sports and events at the Recreation Reserve

Kootingal Recreation Reserve is in the centre of town, between the local swimming pool and the library. It has two tennis courts, a clubhouse and two cricket nets. When planning your trip, the reserve may be worth considering if sports facilities are of interest to you.

The reserve is also the venue for the Kootingal Country Fair, held annually on the first weekend in September. For travellers interested in local events, this date is a useful guide when choosing when to travel. The fair offers a different way to experience Kootingal than a visit to the sports facilities: it’s an annual event on the calendar, rather than an individual sporting activity. The fair takes place on one weekend a year, while horse rides start three times daily.

Memory Park and Kootingal War Memorial

Memory Park is a memorial park established in the early 1920s. The park is home to the Kootingal War Memorial, which was originally dedicated in 1921. Those interested in places of remembrance will find a historic point of interest here in Kootingal.

Swimming pool and dining

Kootingal Swimming Pool has a shaded playground and a kiosk.

Kootingal Hotel offers casual indoor dining and outdoor dining in its beer garden. This means Kootingal also has an option where choosing between indoor and outdoor seating is part of what’s on offer. Together with the horse rides, reserve, memorial park and swimming pool, this gives you a varied picture of the town, while keeping the individual offerings distinct.

When choosing a holiday apartment or holiday house in Kootingal, you can consider which experiences you’d like to shape your stay.

Discover more places

You can also discover these places: Mylestom, Stockinbingal, Fitzroy Falls, Euston, North Albury, Jerrawangala, La Perouse, Northbridge.

For the broader travel overview: New South Wales.