Boonoo Boonoo is located within the Tenterfield Shire and lies approximately 26 kilometres north of Tenterfield along the Mount Lindesay Road.
The locality is approximately 10 kilometres south-east of the Queensland-New South Wales border.
[2] The local geography is dominated by prominent granite inselbergs and mountains, a fine example being that of the nearby Bald Rock, the largest granite inselberg in Australia, which is located within Bald Rock National Park.
[citation needed] The main geographic features in the locality are Boonoo Boonoo National Park, Boonoo Boonoo River and Falls, Basket Swamp National Park, Bald Rock National Park and Mount Lindesay Road.
[citation needed] Gold was discovered in the district in 1858,[3] and the economy today is mainly beef cattle breeding and superfine wool production through the breeding of Merino sheep.