Visit Outback NSW

The Black Opal is elusive but Lightning Ridge’s character and hospitality certainly are not. There is a wonderful welcome from the time you arrive; you can understand why some travelers decide to stay.

Located in a unique Outback Australia location, it is a wonderfully eccentric place and the eccentricity is comforting in this day of conformity. 

You can read all there is to know about The Ridge' and even hear stories, but that will give you as much understanding as trying to smell a color.

You can experience sculptures underground, bottle-houses, antique lamps, castles, astronomy monuments, unique gardens, hills named 'Lunatic', 'Pig' and Bald', a pub crawl to 'The Pub in the Scrub', 'The Glengarry Hilton' and 'Sheepyard', and even tour underground mines. And how do you find all these thing?.. look out for a colored Car Door.

Make sense?

Thought not...it will when you go though....

The 'Ridge' will welcome you with classic country hospitality but it will certainly not be 'more of the same'.

They are a unique bunch of characters out there and they pride themselves on a wonderful and heartfelt eccentricity; it is something about the pioneering spirit that allowed this area to develop and many visitors become so enamoured with the place that a 3 day holiday can turn into a lifetime of pleasure for the many who are so captivated by the place they stay.

The Ridge sits on the worlds richest deposits of Black Opal but that is not the only gem that Lightning Ridge lays claim to; it is one of the most welcoming, wonderfully eccentric, and 'must-see' destinations of Outback Australia.

It is so welcoming that many people touring outback NSW who visit Lightning Ridge end up stay... not for a few days (although many do) but to live. It is one of those places.