Explore the Sunshine Coast Hinterland
The Noosa Hinterland is the kind of place that sells itself. With Noosa’s famous beaches, stunning hinterland acreage and rolling hills, great year-round climate and abundant water supply attracting new residents from all over the world every day. Cooroy and the surrounding areas popularity has also helped produce a thriving real estate market, and enabled developers to build homes to suit every taste. No matter what kind of property you're seeking, you'll find a lot to choose from in the Noosa Hinterland.
In the hinterland town of Cooroy is situated just off the Bruce Highway giving easy access Southbound to Brisbane and Northbound to Gympie. With Cooroy’s population of 2,931 (according to the 2006 cebsus) it’s easy to understand why you’ll find an array of eateries including a newly opened Jamaica Blue Coffee shop, your choice of Bakeries, Café’s and Restaurants and the Cooroy Hotel which provides great daily specials and live entertainment, Bowls Club and RSL. Cooroy also offers the best of boutiques, surfwear shop, shoe shop and business wear shop to indulge any shopaholic.
You’ll find all you need to do your grocery shopping at Luke’s Super IGA and if you need some pampering there is an assortment of hairdressers and beauty treatments and massage therapists. If you’re into tinkering or home improvement, Cooroy has extensive hardware, building and landscaping supplies and services. Commercially there are all the services you need including banking, insurance, automotive, computer services, accountants, solicitors and post office.
The local schools provide schooling from Day care services to High School Education, and there are various day care facilities including:-
- Smarty Pants Cooroy Daycare And Early Learning Centre
- Tadpoles Early Learning Centre
- Cooroy Community Kindergarten
- Cooroy Outside School Hours Care
Cooroy State School Primary offers education from Prep classes to Grade 7 and Noosa District State High School provides education from Grade 8 to Grade 12. Also available is the Noosa Christian College offering classes from Prep to Grade 12. The local schools are very reputable and many outstanding students have originated from these schools.
Cooroy’s newest asset is a $9.7 million state of the art library. Imagine reading your new book on the grass roof of your library. You can do this and more in the brand new library which opened June 2010.
Looking for a nature walk? Take a scenic drive to Cooroy Mountain with access via the Cooroy Mountain Spring Water property, this is a 2 hour return climb and a great work out.
If You’re looking for something a little less rigorous you can also take a stroll through the Botanical Gardens at Lake Macdonald just 4 kilometers from the centre of Cooroy or you could walk to the top of Mount Tinbeerwah situated off Noosa Cooroy Road. For the more adventurous try Cooroora Mountain at Pomona which is a more difficult climb and also hosts the famous “King of the Mountain” climb each year.
The most amazing thing about Cooroy is its strong community spirit and friendly hospitality, come and see for yourself!
You’ll feel proud to call the hinterland your home!
To help you become better acquainted with the Noosa Hinterland area we are pleased to offer a map below. You can use the navigation buttons at the top left of the map and click on either the Road or Aerial views. Using these buttons, you can move the map north, south, east or west, and zoom in and out. Or you might prefer to just use your mouse, in which case you can double-click to zoom in and out, as well as left click and hold to drag the map to your desired location. Please have fun and enjoy.
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