Cultural and Theme Tours

Cemetery Tours Toowoomba offers a fun, unique, and professional way to explore the rich history of the Darling Downs region. Run by researcher, author, and journalist Lisa Herbert, this small, local business provides a fascinating deep dive into the lives of the pioneers buried at the heritage-listed Drayton and Toowoomba Cemetery.

What makes these tours stand out is the commitment to historical accuracy. Lisa’s expertise ensures that the tours are more than just a walk through a graveyard; they are a journey through captivating stories of hardship and triumph, ingenuity and tragedy, ingenuity and innovation, mischief and murder. You’ll learn about the region’s fascinating and sometimes confronting past while exploring cemetery symbolism, craftsmanship, and burial practices from a bygone era.

Cemetery Tours Toowoomba is dedicated to making history accessible and fun for everyone. Tour options include:

A two-hour walking tour for those who want a comprehensive experience.
A 90-minute “Stroll and Roll” tour, specifically designed for individuals with mobility challenges. This tour accommodates wheelchairs, walkers, and those who prefer a slower pace, ensuring that no one is left out.

In addition to scheduled tours, private tour enquiries are welcome, catering to both large and small groups, often on short notice.

For anyone with a curious mind or a love for history, these “grave encounters” ensure the region’s stories are never dead and buried.

Services

Cemetery Walking Tour

From $34 to $38

This two-hour, time-travelling adventure brings the Toowoomba region’s incredible history to life.

With its first burial in 1850, the heritage-listed Drayton & Toowoomba Cemetery is one of Queensland’s oldest surviving cemeteries.

The real lives and deaths of locals reveal gripping stories of hardships and hangings, triumph and tragedy, ingenuity and innovation, mischief and murder.

Your lively, experienced Cemetery Tours Toowoomba guide will unearth the stories of some fascinating people who rest in the cemetery. You will explore cemetery symbolism, craftsmanship, and funeral and burial practices of a bygone era.

For anyone with a curious mind or a love for history, this walking tour provides an entertaining, professional, and insightful “grave encounter” that ensures the region’s stories are never dead and buried.

Disabled Access

Carpark Non Smoking Pet Friendly - Enquire Public Toilet

Easy Access Cemetery Tour

From $22 to $25

Suitable for wheelchairs, wheelie walkers, and those who don’t want to walk too far, this stroll-n-roll tour of one of Queensland’s oldest surviving cemeteries brings the Toowoomba region’s incredible history to life.

Discover ordinary people who did extraordinary things to make the Toowoomba region what it is today: a war hero, a mischievous youngster, farming battlers, an outback queen, a grieving father, an Italian angel, and a pioneering poet, to name a few.

This tour covers about 450 metres of bitumen over one hour and 15 minutes.

Along with unearthing the stories of some fascinating people who rest at the Drayton and Toowoomba Cemetery, the tour will explore cemetery symbolism, craftsmanship, and funeral and burial practices of a bygone era.

For anyone with a curious mind or a love for history, Cemetery Tours Toowoomba provides an entertaining, professional, and insightful “grave encounter” that ensures the region’s stories are never dead and buried.

Disabled Access

Carpark Non Smoking Public Toilet