Tweed Heads Travel Guide

Although it is in New South Wales Tweed Heads forms a twin town with Coolangatta and together they sprawl across the NSW-Queensland border. Both towns developed independently but by the 1960s, as the Gold Coast began to expand, the line between the two centres began to blur. However, whether visitors realise it or not, they are, in the summer, stepping backwards in time when they pass from Tweed Heads to Coolangatta. This anomaly arises from the fact that NSW adopts daylight savings in summer while Queensland does not. Located 862 km north of Sydney. Tweed Heads denotes the southern end of the Gold Coast proper - an area noted for its surf beaches, night life and leisured lifestyle.