Bushwalking clubs in Queensland and NSW are joining forces in a bid to create a 1,350 kilometre, 60-day hiking trail they hope would become one of the world’s premiere tracks.

Boonah would be the destination and become a key “trail hub” under that vision.

Bushwalking Queensland secretary Gavin Dale and Bushwalking NSW vice-president David Bell will lay out plans for their proposed Barrington to Boonah Trail at the latter’s club at its annual general meeting later this month.

That leg would stretch from the Barrington Tops National Park, about 125 kilometres north east of Newcastle, north via the Great Dividing Range and The Great Escarpment through across the border into Queensland before coming down into the Fassifern.

Mr Dale said creating the track would be a case of linking up existing walking tracks and fire trails, many of which follow high altitude ridges among the Gondwana rainforest.

“A lot of the infrastructure is already in place,” he said.

“It’s just that nobody has tried to link them up and see if it’s possible t