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Forty Mile Scrub National Park

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An island of rainforest in a sea of eucalypt woodland, the park preserves rare, remnant semi-evergreen vine thicket. Large bottle trees along with fig, Burdekin plum and white cedar trees drop their leaves in the dry season, but spring to life with summer rain.

Take a break and have a picnic at the sheltered tables. Learn about the plants and animals found in this park on the short, self-guided walk through this unique forest. Listen for the ringing calls of pied currawongs and look for lemon-bellied flycatchers, rufous fantails and other birds in the trees.

Forty Mile Scrub National Park is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Camping in the park is prohibited.

A Bottle Tree
© EPA/Stella Martin

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Things to do: *Walk. Follow the signs from the day-use area to the start of the wheelchair-accessible circuit walk. The Forty Mile Scrub circuit walk is an easy 300m circuit. Explore the stunted forest on this short, flat walk *Have a Picnic. An established area is located beside the Kennedy Highway. Picnic tables & toilets are provided *View wildlife. Interesting insects, skinks, snakes, possums, the Australian brush-turkey, the red-legged pademelon and a number of birds live here
Getting There: *Travel south from Cairns or north from Townsville to Ravenshoe. Continue south-west along the Kennedy Highway to Mount Garnet. Forty Mile Scrub National Park straddles the Kennedy Highway, 65km south-west of Mount Garnet. The Kennedy Highway is sealed and conventional vehicles can access the park The park may also be reached from the south, via Greenvale, or the west, via the Gulf Developmental Road through Georgetown

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Location

Kennedy Highway
Mount Garnet QLD

Getting There*Travel south from Cairns or north from Townsville to Ravenshoe. Continue south-west along the Kennedy Highway to Mount Garnet. Forty Mile Scrub National Park straddles the Kennedy Highway, 65km south-west of Mount Garnet. The Kennedy Highway is sealed and conventional vehicles can access the park The park may also be reached from the south, via Greenvale, or the west, via the Gulf Developmental Road through Georgetown