Tamworth Visitor Information Centre

08/09/2026

We love the Tamworth Region 🧡🖤

06/09/2026

✨️ Finalists, fabulous company & a fantastic Friday night! ✨

The Tamworth Visitor Information Centre team were thrilled to be named finalists in the Tamworth Quality Business Awards - Outstanding Visitor Experience category!

No trophy for us this time, but plenty of reasons to celebrate! 💛 A huge shout-out to our amazing staff and volunteers who make the VIC what it is ✨️

Congratulations to Team Australian Equine and Livestock Events Centre (AELEC) on taking out our category! 👏🏆



Photo of some of our amazing staff and volunteers ✨️

04/09/2026

Father's Day is not far away - still looking for a way to treat Dad?
Why not celebrate with country music and memories at the Country Music Wax Museum, National Guitar Museum and The Australian Country Music Hall of Fame. Entry is free for all Dads this Sunday, 6 September. Come celebrate Father's Day with us! No booking required.

The Country Music Wax Museum and the National
Guitar Museum is open every day, 9am - 4pm.

The Australian Country Music Hall of Fame opens
Tuesday to Sunday 10am - 4pm.





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01/09/2026

How awesome is the new Tamworth Skywalk!! ✨🙌

28/08/2026

🩵See below to prepare you for the Grand Opening of the Tamworth Skywalk.

Three more sleeps until the Tamworth Skywalk Grand Opening! 🎉🤩

To help manage the expected increase in both vehicle and pedestrian traffic there will be some changes to traffic conditions in East Tamworth on Saturday, 29 August:

The opening event will be held at the top of Brisbane Street/Endeavour Drive from 10am to 2pm.

Multiple roads will be affected from 6am to 3pm, with traffic control and signage in place to guide motorists.

🚗 Bourke Street to become one way
Southbound (downhill) lane closed 6am-3pm
Northbound (uphill) lane remains open – parallel parking on kerb or verge

🚗 Brisbane Street at Nurraba Street to become one way
Northbound (uphill) lane closed 6am-3pm
Southbound (downhill) lane remains open.

🚗 Endeavour Drive
6am-10am and 10.45am-3pm - open under traffic control.
10am-10.45am – closed during the Skywalk opening formalities

🚗 Scenic Road will remain closed until approximately 10:45am

🟢Green Areas: Parking Areas for Opening Event
Bourke Street parallel parking on kerb or verge
Oxley High School gravel carpark
Botanic Gardens car park
Pedestrian access to the event will be available through the botanic Gardens

🔴Red Area: Opening Event Area at bottom Skywalk entry and disabled parking in new carpark

🔵Blue line: Stop go traffic control on Endeavour Drive

🟥Red line: One way uphill on Bourke Street around to road closure at the top of Brisbane Street at Nurraba Street Intersection

🟡 Yellow lines: Detour for uphill traffic on Brisbane Street at road closure
Nurraba Street then Fitzroy Street then Raglan Street for uphill traffic to return down Brisbane Street, Detour for uphill traffic to access Endeavour Drive - Raglan Street then Bourke Street

27/08/2026

UPDATE: 4:45pm Friday

The network issues have been resolved and our venues phone lines have been restored.

Thank you to the community for your patience today.

Update: 12:15pm Friday

📱 Phone and Network system outage ☎️
Council is experiencing a network outage at the moment which is affecting a number of phone and payment systems.

- If you call Council it is currently diverting to the after-hours service. This is also impacting our venues such as the Visitor Information Centre, Entertainment Venues, and Gallery and Museums.
- For all non-urgent enquiries, we'd encourage you to be patient, and if possible call back on Monday from 8:30am.
- The outage is also impacting Eftpos payments across a number of our offices and venues.
- This outage is also affecting the MyTRC app, including the sports field status.

Thank you for your patience and understanding. We'll let you know when the network is back!

26/08/2026

🕊 Vale, Dolly Parton 1946–2026 - The Queen of Country Music
We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Dolly Parton, a true icon whose, music, compassion and extraordinary talent touched millions around the world.

We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Dolly Parton, a true icon whose, music, compassion and extraordinary talent touched millions around the world.

The Queen of Country Music leaves behind an unmatched legacy that will live on for generations - and what a legacy Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is!

“If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, then you are an excellent leader.” - Dolly Parton

In lieu of flowers Dolly's family has asked for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. If you would like to make a donation to Dolly Parton's Imagination Library in the Tamworth region visit https://donate.unitedway.com.au/donations-tamworth

21/08/2026

We had the delightful Cooee 2 Country Road Trip Crew visit the Big Golden Guitar this morning to catch-up with some Splashpool band members and to further promote their upcoming Under The Gums Gilgandra event.
Thanks for dropping in and all the best with your festival! 💛✨

20/08/2026

🎆Update - the Visitor Information Centre is back online🎆

⚠️ Due to a recent power outage West of the Tamworth CBD, the Tamworth Visitor Information Centre has no operational phone lines or internet.

Apologies to those trying to reach us.

We can still process transactions as normal.

✴️ An update to this post will be made when all is restored.

Thank you for your patience.

14/08/2026

🚧 Further update to Road Closure - Scenic Road 🚧

Scenic Road will remain closed to all pedestrians and vehicles until the conclusion of the Tamworth Skywalk Grand Opening formalities, at approximately 11am, Saturday 29 August.

Not long now until the amazing Skywalk opens! 🏜️

🚧 ROAD CLOSURE - SCENIC ROAD 🚧

UPDATE 19 AUGUST:
As mentioned last week, works to relocate the overhead power on Scenic Road underground have taken a little longer than originally anticipated due to harder-than-expected rock encountered underground.

We’re continuing to encounter challenging ground conditions and are working with expert contractors to determine the best solution to complete the works.

Unfortunately, this means we need to extend the Scenic Road closure once again, and we apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Scenic Road will remain closed to all pedestrians and vehicles until the conclusion of the Tamworth Skywalk Grand Opening formalities, at approximately 11am, Saturday 29 August.

Thank you for your patience and understanding as we enter the final stages of this very exciting project.

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Earlier:

Works to relocate the overhead power underground have taken a little longer than originally anticipated due to harder than expected rock encountered underground.

As a result, the Scenic Road closure has been extended until 6pm Wednesday 19 August, including Saturday 15 and Sunday 16, to allow the works to be completed safely.

We appreciate your patience and understanding while these works are finalised.

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Previously:

Scenic Road will be closed to all vehicles and pedestrians from 10pm Sunday 9 August – 6pm Friday 14 August.

The closure will allow for overhead power cables around the Skywalk bridge to be relocated underground and will provide a safe work area for contractors.

During this period, the Oxley Scenic Lookout, Kamilaroi Walking Track and surrounding trails will also be closed.

Thank you for your patience as we continue work on this exciting project.