Townsville Area Travel Guides

Cape Pallarenda Conservation Park

A scenic coastal park close to Townsville, Cape Pallarenda is the site of a former quarantine station dating from 1915. Enjoy a picnic or barbecue...

Clump Mountain National Park

Bicton Hill (Clump Mountain) National Park is a small coastal section overlooking Mission Beach and Bingil Bay. It contains some of the few...

Murray Falls, Murray Upper National Park

Located centrally 41km north-west of Cardwell and 36km south-west of Tully, lies Murray Upper National Park. It is here where one of natures...

Horseshoe Bay

Horseshoe Bay is the largest bay on Magnetic Island. Ideal for watersports, almost every watercraft imaginable is available for hire as well as...

Hinchinbrook Island National Park

Hinchinbrook Island National Park is offshore from Cardwell, two and a half hours south of Cairns. It is a rugged, densely vegetated island with...

Saunders Beach

Saunders Beach is part of the Northern Beaches precinct of Thuringowa just North of Townsville on Queenslands Coast. Saunders Beach has a...

Balgal Beach

Balgal Beach features an excellent boat ramp with easy access to the Palm Island Group.

Balgal is a superb sand beach with a wide creek...

Magnetic Island National Park

Magnetic Island National Park is a designated World Heritage Area. It is a rugged continental island with hoop pine rainforest and eucalypt...

Centenary Park

Located in Charters Towers, Centenary Park has the gold discovery monuments, picnic tables, gas barbecues and is always cool and shady. Centenary...

Paluma and Crystal Creek Rainforest

Paluma Range is a rainforest haven located approximately 60 minutes drive north of the city of Townsville. Paluma village is located on the...

Ross River

The Ross River is fast becoming Thuringowa's recreational centrepiece, hosting a wide range of sporting and leisure activities. Riverwalk, a...

Tam O'Shanter National Park

This park contains one of the largest remaining areas of coastal lowland rainforest in the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area. It includes a rare...

Arcadia at Magnetic Island

Arcadia is the smallest of the 4 main bays around Magnetic Island. Arcadia surrounds 2 of the Island's prominent bays, Alma Bay and Geoffrey...

Lake Paluma

Lake Paluma is an attractive lake surrounded by World Heritage Rainforest. It provides a water supply for approximately one third of the year....

Toolakea Beach

For a peaceful experience on yet another one of Thuringowa's gorgeous beaches, visit Toolakea Beach and bring the whole family for a relaxing...

Wet Tropics Great Walk

The Wet Tropics Great Walk is the longest of Queensland's Great Walks. It traverses 110km of rugged north Queensland landscapes in Girringun...

Light House Bommie

The Light House Bommie site off Lady Elliot Island in the Great Barrier Reef is a group of small coral outcrops packed with marine life. ...

Lake Ross

Owned by NQ Water, Lake Ross stores over 200,000 million litres of water and supplies up to 80 per cent of the region's potable water supply. ...

Licuala State Forest

Licaula State Forest boasts several enjoyable walking tracks. Enjoy the native wildlife of the area as you walk around the forest…the Ulysses...

Nelly Bay

Magnetic Island is located just off the coast of Townsville. The National Park here is home to Australia's largest colony of koalas and a huge...