Black Mountain National Park

This park protects an imposing mountain range of massive black granite boulders at the northern end of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area. The intriguing landscape is the source of many legends and home to some unique wildlife.

Read the signs at the carpark to learn about local history and wildlife. From the viewing platform, use binoculars to look for the surprisingly large fig trees growing among the boulders on the distant mountain.

Look also for the natural light colour of the rock on freshly broken boulders, before algae blackens it. One species of frog and two lizard species are found nowhere else. Godman's rock wallabies and ghost bats also live here.