Tropical North Queensland Attractions

Great Barrier Reef Port Douglas

Agincourt Reef, off Port Douglas on the Great Barrier Reef, is a series of many smaller reefs with at least 16 different dive sites. The Channels offer interesting swim-throughs and caves..

Grant Street Corner Warner Street Port Douglas

Australian and Oceanic Art Gallery has a diverse and comprehensive range of contemporary and traditional artwork, including paintings, sculpture, glassware, artifacts and jewellery...

8 Rob Veivers Drive Kuranda

Australian Butterfly Sanctuary is the largest butterfly flight aviary and exhibit in Australia – an all-weather experience in the heart of Kuranda. Home to over 1,500 magnificent..

Kingston Road Mossman

Daintree Station, home of the Australian Muster Experience Stockmans Lunch Muster and much more! The Australian Muster Experience celebrates the spirit of wild outback Australia stretched..

Bruce Highway Mourilyan

Opened in 1977 the Australian Sugar Industry Museum is a modern complex covering some 14,000 square. The Museum's collection comprises of contemporary and historical photographs, books..

Mourilyan Harbour Mourilyan

Known as high continental islands, the forested slopes of the Barnard Islands rise steeply from the sea. Heights of the islands vary from 19 to 95 metres. The Barnard Islands have a..

Barron Gorge National Park Cairns

Barron Falls lookout track, Barron Gorge National Park. Located 3.3 kilometres from Kuranda village, via Barron Falls Road, an elevated wheelchair-accessible boardwalk meanders through the..

Barron Falls Road Kuranda

Rugged mountains, ravines, tumbling waterfalls, magnificent rainforest, rich and varied wildlife, easy access and a fascinating history make Barron Gorge National Park one of Queensland’s..

Wooroonooran National Park Cairns

Bartle Frere trail (Atherton Tableland trail head), Wooroonooran National Park. Climbing the summit of Queensland's highest mountain offers a challenging way to explore part of the World..

Wooroonooran National Park Cairns

Bartle Frere trail (western trail head), Wooroonooran National Park. Climbing the summit of Queensland's highest mountain offers a challenging way to explore part of the World..

Coondoo Street Kuranda

BatReach, located in Kuranda, is a bat and wildlife care centre, focusing on flying foxes. Pam Tully, creator of the centre, began looking after flying foxes around 1990 in the suburb of..

Beaver Cay Marine Sanctuary Mission Beach

Located in the protected Beaver Cay Marine Sanctuary off Mission Beach, Beaver Reef is an unspoiled fringing reef surrounding a sandy cay and offers a range of dive sites. Abundant soft..

Clump Mountain National Park Mission Beach

Bicton Hill circuit track, Clump Mountain National Park. The track begins on Bicton Hill's exposed eastern side, where sturdy trees such as brush box and swamp mahogany grow. Climbing..

Rob Vievers Drive Kuranda Heritage Markets Kuranda

Home to the largest single collection of free flying birds in Australia (some 500 of them!), Birdworld Kuranda displays no less than 75 species of the most spectacular birds from all..

Cooktown Developmental Road Helenvale

At the northern end of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, Black Mountain National Park contains an imposing mountain range of black granite boulders. These formidable boulders, some the..

Girringun National Park Blencoe Falls Cardwell

Blencoe Falls, Girringun National Park, boasts spectacular scenery and an array of plant and animal life. The falls plunge 90 metres to the pool below, before cascading a further 230 metres..

Mt Whitfield Conservation Park Cairns

Blue Arrow Circuit, Mount Whitfield National Park. This walk climbs mainly through rainforest to 300 metres altitude, on a path that is sometimes steep and narrow and requires a reasonable..

Lot 5 Captain Cook Highway Smithfield

Cable Ski Cairns offers a unique watersport experience for young and old. A man made freshwater lake offers wakeboarding, kneeboarding, and waterskiing for beginners through to advanced..

1 - 21 McLeod Street Cairns

Cairns Central Shopping Centre is located in the Cairns City, is open seven days and has over 180 specialty stores, plus Myer and Target department stores, Coles and BI-LO supermarkets..

Captain Cook Highway Palm Cove

The Cairns Night Zoo - A great Aussie night out! Come and see what the Aussies get up to after dark! Come and enjoy a delicious barbecue of steak, chicken, fresh prawns, steamed rice and..

40 Abbott Street Cairns

Cairns Regional Gallery is Far North Queensland's only visual art museum and in 2005 it celebrates it's 10th Birthday: a decade of documenting and presenting history, heritage and..

Captain Cook Highway Palm Cove

The award winning Cairns Tropical Zoo is located on the Captain Cook Highway at Palm Cove, just 20 minutes north of Cairns. The zoo is six hectares of tropically landscaped gardens..

2577-2579 Kennedy Highway Koah

The Cairns Wildlife Safari Reserve is set on 200 acres of open bush land, 40 kilometres west of Cairns. It is home to many of the world's exotic and endangered animals. They have the..

35-41 Wharf Street Reef Hotel Casino Cairns

The new Cairns ZOOm is the world's first Challenge Ropes Course in a wildlife immersion exhibit, It consists of 65 elements of crossings and ziplines. Each element is designed and named..

Cape Melville National Park Cooktown

This remote park is characterised by the massive, tumbled granite boulders of the Melville Range, the sandstone escarpments of the Altanmoui Range, and inland dunefields. The park features..

Nicole Drive Cape Tribulation

The Exotic Fruit Tasting is a delicious way to sample unusual, and yummy exotic tropical fruits. Join an eco-certified tasting and orchard tour at Cape Trib Exotic Fruit Farm, at Cape..

Cook Highway Cape Tribulation

Daintree National Park features long sandy beaches, rocky headlands and steep mountain ranges intersected by numerous creeks and rivers. One of Australia's last extensive stands of lowland..

Black Mountain Road Kuranda State Forest Kuranda

Carrowong Sanctuary is a 90 acre pristine property completely surrounded by World Heritage listed rainforest. This unlogged rainforest gives guests a unique experience to enjoy walking..

Danbulla State Forest Drive Yungaburra

The Cathedral Fig Tree, like the Curtain Fig Tree, is a gigantic 500 year old strangler tree. Located in the Danbulla State Forest, the Cathedral Fig has the reputation of being the best..

96 Abbott Street Cairns

The Centre of Contemporary Arts Cairns is a significant site of arts infrastructure developed by the Queensland Government and operated by Arts Queensland. It comprises two performance..

20 Lake Street Cairns

Dining at C'est Bon French Restaurant is a truly unforgettable, exquisitely French experience. Join Nicolas and the team with Chefs from France to savour the mouth watering delights from..

215 Kilometres West of Cairns Chillagoe

Limestone has been weathered, dissolved and reformed by water to create spectacular caverns and passages, decorated by stalactites, stalagmites and flowstones. Some scientists believe that..

Bingil Bay Road Mission Beach

Clump Mountain National Park contains some of the few remaining patches of undisturbed tropical lowland rainforest in North Queensland. This forest type once grew extensively throughout..

Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef Cairns

Located off Lizard Island, on the Great Barrier Reef near Cairns, Cobia Hole is a pinnacle of rocks covered with marine organism including sponges, soft coral, coralliamorpharians, feather..

Ribbon Reef Number10 Great Barrier Reef Cairns

Cod Hole, located on Ribbon Reef number 10 on the Great Barrier Reef, is best accessed from Cairns or Port Douglas. Internationally recognised underwater photographers Ron and Valerie..

136 Mason Street Mareeba

Bring your hunger for new experiences and your thirst for something completely different when you visit the Coffee Works, in Mareeba, just one hour from Cairns and Port Douglas. Eclectic..

Mount Cook National Park Cooktown

Cooktown’s Scenic Rim Trail displays all aspects of the town’s historical and cultural delights. Experience a range of diverse natural habitats, each with their own special features and..

Great Barrier Reef Cairns

Coral Gradens, on the the Great Barrier Reef off Cairns, features a wall that stretches from 5m to the surface along the reef edge, dropping away down 10 to 20m. Superb variety of corals on..

Toohey Street Cardwell

The Coral Sea Battle Memorial Park is Australia’s largest war memorial. The park was created to commemorate an air and sea battle which took place in 1942 about 800 kilometres east off..

Atherton–Yungaburra Road Yungaburra

This park protects a small area of an endangered type of forest, called mabi forest, Ngadjon word for the Lumholtz's tree-kangaroo. This forest type has several unique features, most..

Atherton-Yungaburra Road Yungaburra

The Curtain Fig National Park contains the renowned Curtain Fig Tree, an enormous strangler fig tree. Located a short drive out of Yungaburra, a small town in the Atherton Tableland, the..

20 Daintree Road Daintree

Enter a world of special sites, ancient bush walks and traditional practices with Daintree Cultural Adventures. Baral Mardjanda - Aboriginal Guided Rainforest Walk is one and a half hours..

Cape Tribulation Road Corner of Tulip Oak Road Cow Bay

A multi-award winner, the Discovery Centre is nestled in the heart of the rainforest, 10 kilometres north of the Daintree River. The Centre is a 'must see' for anyone visiting the area..

20 Daintree Road Daintree

The rainforest Aboriginal people have named this place “Wawu-karrba” - healing of the spirit. Daintree, 135 million years old (65 million years older than the Amazon) is home to the..

Gillies Highway Atherton

Crater lakes, huge strangler figs, rainforest walks, lakeside camping areas and places of important local history are some of the interesting features along the 28 kilometres Danbulla Road...

Davies Creek National Park Mareeba

Davies Creek Falls, a magnificent waterfall cascading over huge granite boulders, and the impressive Clohesy River fig tree are major features of these national parks. Dinden National Park..

189 Fichera Road Mareeba

Taste deliciously different exotic tropical fruit wines at de Brueys Boutique Wines, a unique Winery and Cellar Door amid mango orchards and natural open forest. Tropical wines include..

Davidson Street Sheraton Mirage Hotel Port Douglas

Des Spencer Gallery is located in the main foyer of the Sheraton Mirage Hotel, Port Douglas in Tropical North Queensland. The gallery exclusively features the fine art of Des Spencer. Des..

Dinden National Park Kuranda

High in the Lamb Range, Dinden National Park protects rainforest and eucalypt woodland. The clear waters of Davies Creek flow over smooth granite boulders and make a refreshing place to..

Barron Gorge National Park Cairns

Douglas track, Barron Gorge National Park - This track follows one of the first trails linking the Hodgkinson goldfields (west of Mareeba on the Atherton Tableland) with the port of Cairns...