As Australia's best-known outback town, Winton is known as the home of poetry. Home to the Waltzing Matilda Centre and Queensland’s Boulder Opal, Winton is rich in nature, culture and heritage. As well as the Waltzing Matilda Centre and Queensland's Boulder Opal, Winton is the only place in the world with recorded evidence of there being a dinosaur stampede 65 million years ago. There are 3,300 stampeding footprints immortalised in stone and protected 110km south-west of Winton.