Tamborine National Park

Covering 1160ha, Tamborine National Park has 17 separate sections on the Tamborine plateau and surrounding foothills. These include Witches Falls, where Queensland's first national park was declared in 1908.

Tamborine was once part of the slopes of the giant Tweed Volcano. It displays many fascinating geological features, along with nearby Lamington National Park, Springbrook National Park and Natural Bridge.

The park protects remnants of Tamborine Mountain's plant communities and includes areas of rainforest with distinctive piccabeen palm groves, wet eucalypt forest dominated by tall flooded gums, open forest with bracken fern understorey and woodland. Surrounded by urban and rural development, these plant communities provide essential wildlife habitat. Tamborine Mountain escarpment contains 85 percent of all fauna species and 65 percent of all flora species in the Gold Coast City area.

The park is home to many rainforest animals including the rare Albert's lyrebird and one of the world's largest skinks, the land mullet. The Richmond birdwing butterfly and noisy pitta migrate seasonally to the park from nearby higher altitude rainforests.