Conway National Park

Conway National Park is the largest area of lowland tropical rainforest in Queensland (outside Tropical North Queensland). Hoop pines grow on coastal ridges and in damp gullies, emerging above the rainforest canopy. Rugged, steep, rocky cliffs provide a spectacular 35km-long backdrop to the Whitsunday Passage and islands, beautiful forests, panoramic lookouts and secluded beaches. Stop for a picnic and short walk at the picnic area on the Shute Harbour Road. Toilets, a shelter shed and electric barbecues are provided.

Dry vine thicket, mangroves, open forests with a grasstree understorey, paperbark and pandanus woodlands, and patches of lowland rainforest with twisted vines grow in the park. The park is home to two of Australia's mound-building birds, the Australian brush-turkey and the orange-footed scrubfowl.

For thousands of years, the Ngaro and Gia people roamed these forests, harvesting the riches of the forests and the adjoining sea country. Today, the adjacent waters are protected in marine parks.