Townsville Area Travel Guides

Lannercost State Forest

Lannercost State Forest boasts fantastic gorge scenery, rainforest, open forest and waterfalls in the Herbert River valley. Facilities are...

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 Range National Park

Paluma Range National Park is a mountainous park on the Paluma Range north-west of Townsville. The park offers dense rainforest, open forest...

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...

Buujan Quiinbiira Walk (Wet Tropics Great!Walk)

The 'Buujan Quiinbiira Walk' is part of the Wet Tropics Great Walk located in Girringun National Park. Where the walk starts off is...

Jagany (Goanna) Wet Tropics Walk

Wallaman Falls in Girringun National Park - the largest single drop waterfall in Australia, is where you can take the Jagany (Goanna) Walking...

The Moltke Dive Site

The Moltke is a wreck dive accessible from the shore on Magnetic Island. The old cargo Boat has been here for over 70 years.

The...

Kennedy Track

The Kennedy Track is one of the longer walks in the Mission Beach area, taking about 4 hours to complete the 8 kilometre return journey. However...

Ross River

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

Koombooloomba Dam

The power station was commissioned in 1999, and was developed in line with principles of environmentally sustainable development.

Its...

Cape Upstart National Park

Cape Upstart is an imposing granite headland covered in a range of vegetation types from vine thicket to heath. The park is an important place for...

Tully Gorge National Park

The wettest place in Queensland contains Tully Gorge in the rugged Alcock State Forest. The Tully River is renowned for white water rafting. The...

Moorrinya National Park

Moorrinya National Park is a remote park with 32,607ha of dry, flat plains criss-crossed by watercourses and covered in open eucalypt, paperbark...

Gugigugi (Butterfly) Walk

Here in the lush Wallaman Falls section of Girringun National Park, come, get back to nature and explore the Gugigugi (Butterfly) Walk.

So...

Tyto Wetlands

Tyto is a 90-hectare wetland site located in close proximity to the township of Ingham. It integrates lagoons, interpretive signs, lookouts and...

Girringun National Park

Formerly named Lumholtz National Park, Girringun National Park is one of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area's national parks, and is a...

Bluewater

Bluewater Creek - this little hideaway just off the Bruce Highway hosts a picture perfect fresh water attraction popular with picnic goers and...

Hinchinbrook Heritage Walk

Ingham, a large, tropical town of gardens on the Herbert River, is set apart from other sugar centres of the north by its distinctive...