Toowoomba has more than 150 public parks and gardens., including Japanese and Botanic Gardens - This city and it's surrounds is an absolute picture in the spring and autumn.
Historic Spring Bluff Railway 
The Japanese Gardens Queens Park 
It is a Cathedral city,
with Theatres
and University and Colleges
Toowoomba sits on the crest of the Great Dividing Range, around 700 metres (2,300ft) above sea level. A few streets are on the eastern side of the edge of the range, but most of the city is west of the divide. The City occupies the edge of the range and the low ridges behind it. Two valleys run north from the southern boundary, each arising from springs either side of the Middle Ridge near Spring Street at an altitude around 680 m. These waterways, East Creek and West Creek flow together just north of the CBD to form Gowrie Creek.
Gowrie Creek drains to the west across the Darling Downs and is a tributary of the Condamine River, part of the Murray-Darling Basin. The water flowing down Gowrie Creek makes it way some 3,000 kms (1,900 miles) to the mouth of the Murray River near Adelaide in South Australia. Rain which falls on the easternmost streets of Toowoomba flows east to Moreton Bay (Brisbane) a distance of around 170kms (110 miles).
TOOWOOMBA WON AUSTRALIA'S MOST TIDIEST CITY/TOWN HONOUR IN 2008
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In June 1827 a Botanist and Explorer, Alan Cunningham, discovered 4 million acres of rich farming and grazing land, which became known as the Darling Downs. The city of Toowoomba is commercial and support centre for this rich agricultural area.
Everything seems to grow well
on the DARLING DOWNS.
Yesterday during a month of unusually heavy rain, including 100 mls (4 inches) within half an hour early yesterday afternoon - IT CAME WITHOUT WARNING - within minutes - an 8 metre sea of murky brown water that swept through the streets of Toowoomba. The Eastern and Western creeks and Condamine tributory broke their banks and partook in this disaster.
In its wake was a trail of death and destruction that devastated the picturesque city perched on top of the Darling Downs and stunned a state exhausted and stretched by its worst natural disaster in decades.
People climbed up on to their roofs, some were rescued, but others stayed there all night - helicopters were eventually grounded because of the horrific fog and rain. Many houses were washed away and outlying towns look like a cyclone has been through them, buildings and houses are flattened - it is like an INLAND TSUNAMI. The Defence forces have been brought in, with most rescues having to be done by air as most of the roads are just wiped out. BUT the weather is getting worse, and soon again will be too treacherous for helicopters. 
