The Koorawatha Hotel has a long narrow bar and keen-eyed patrons may notice that there is a rather elongated-looking wombat on top of the ‘fridge.

Keen bird watchers may find much to reward them at the Koorawatha Falls area at the Nature Reserve.

The German Greens activist Petra Kelly once owned a building block of land in the centre of the village, which she had never actually visited.

It is inconspicuously located by a peppercorn tree in the township, about half a kilometre west from the Olympic Highway.

"The Decline of the North", a poem by Peter Porter, makes reference to rustic scenes near Koorawatha, which he visited in the mid-1970s with his two daughters, Katherine and Jane.