Kuranda National Park

Kuranda National Park and the adjacent Mowbray National Park are entirely within the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area in Queensland. They feature both rainforest and open eucalypt forests and protect an important wildlife corridor between centres of biodiversity in the Daintree/Carbine Tableland area to the north and Lamb Range/Atherton Tableland area to the south. The parks occupies the western slopes of the Macalister Range, which runs parallel to the coast between Cairns and Mossman. Black Mountain Road, an unsealed road, runs through the park, as well as state forest and private land, from the Kennedy Highway in the south to the Mossman-Mount Molloy Road, near Julatten, in the north.

Endangered Cassowaries inhabit the rainforest in this area. These large flightless birds, which can reach 2m in height, are shy and surprisingly difficult to spot. In early summer, male riflebirds are sometimes seen displaying on tall, dead trees in Kuranda National Park.