Everything about Wooroonooran National Park totally explained
Wooroonooran is a national park in
Queensland (
Australia), 1367 km northwest of
Brisbane, between
Innisfail and
Cairns.
The park is one of the
Wet Tropics World Heritage Area series of national parks, and is a gazetted
World Heritage site. Delared in 1988, the World Heritage area stretches from Townsville in the south to Cooktown in the north, and contains some of the oldest surviving rainforests in the world. The national park includes Queensland's two highest mountains, Bartle Frere (1622m) and Bellenden Ker (1592m).
Walshs Pyramid, 922m, is located just south of Gordonvale and is one of the highest free-standing natural pyramids in the world.
Waterfalls
The
Josephine Falls visitor area was developed and opened to the public in the 1970s. The water in Josephine Creek originates from the slopes of Bartle Frere and flows into the Russell River. A 600 meter walking track leads through rainforest to recently constructed platforms which allow safe views of the falls. Several people have been injured and killed in the falls as the granite rocks are extremely slippery so access to the top pool beyond the platforms is prohibited.
Thirty kilometers west of the
Bruce Highway along the
Palmerston Highway, tracks lead to
Tchupala Falls and
Wallicher Falls. The Tchupala Falls track is approximately 600 meters. and the track to Wallicher Falls is approximately 800 meters. Both falls are part of Henrietta Creek.
Nandroya Falls may be accessed from a walking track originating at Henrietta Creek Campground. The walk is 2.2km by the shortest route. At Nandroya Falls, the Douglas Creek drops in a narrow, uninterrupted, 50 meter fall from a basalt parapet. There is also a second shorter and wider tumble.
Silver Creek Falls is also visible from the track.
Whites Falls are found on Behana Creek, above
Clamshell Falls.
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