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QLD

Carnarvon Gorge

A 20km sandstone gorge system with permanent water, ancient cycads and some of Australia's most significant Aboriginal rock art.

Visited 24–26 August 2026

WA

Purnululu National Park

Banded orange-and-black sandstone domes in the East Kimberley — a UNESCO World Heritage geological landform reached by 53km of rough, high-clearance 4WD track.

Checked 22 September 2026

SA

Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park protects 95,000 hectares of folded quartzite and gorge country 450km north of Adelaide — Ikara (Wilpena Pound), the Brachina Gorge Geological Trail and the fossil ground that gave the Ediacaran Period its name.

Checked 8 October 2026

WA

Karijini National Park

Karijini's gorges cut 2.5-billion-year-old banded ironstone deep into the Hamersley Range — slot canyons, cold permanent pools and Class 5 walks in the Pilbara.

Checked 8 October 2026

QLD

Wallaman Falls

Wallaman Falls drops Stony Creek 268 metres in a single unbroken plunge into a gorge in Girringun National Park — an hour's drive inland from Ingham in Queensland's Wet Tropics.

Checked 12 October 2026

VIC

Wilsons Promontory

Wilsons Promontory is mainland Australia's southernmost national park — a granite peninsula of turquoise bays, white-sand beaches and wombat-grassed flats about three hours' drive from Melbourne.

Checked 8 October 2026

TAS

Freycinet National Park

Pink granite peaks, a white-sand crescent and a 27km peninsula circuit on Tasmania's east coast — 2.5 to 3 hours from Hobart or Launceston, and walkable in anything from 20 minutes to three days.

Checked 8 October 2026

QLD

Hinchinbrook Island

Hinchinbrook Island National Park is an uninhabited island 8 km off Cardwell in North Queensland, crossed on foot only by the 32 km Thorsborne Trail between Ramsay Bay and George Point.

Checked 15 October 2026

NT

Kakadu National Park

Australia's largest national park and a dual UNESCO World Heritage property three hours' drive south-east of Darwin — Bininj/Mungguy country of floodplains, stone country and rock art galleries you walk through, not just look at.

Checked 8 October 2026

NSW

Warrumbungle National Park

An eroded shield volcano in central-west New South Wales — the 90m Breadknife dyke, Grade 4 walks along the crater rim, and Australia's first Dark Sky Park overhead.

Checked 8 October 2026

NSW

Bungonia National Park

A limestone gorge and karst cave system on the Southern Tablelands escarpment, 190km south-west of Sydney — around 200 wild caves, a slot canyon on Bungonia Creek and lookouts over the Shoalhaven valley.

Checked 8 October 2026

NSW

Capertee Valley

Capertee Valley is a broad, escarpment-ringed basin about three hours west of Sydney on Wiradjuri Country, where Capertee National Park's sandstone Valley Lookout, the ruins of Glen Davis's oil-shale works and 242 recorded bird species sit inside one quiet, largely unsealed driving loop.

Checked 13 October 2026

QLD

Bunya Mountains

Bunya Mountains National Park protects the world's largest stand of ancient bunya pines on a cool plateau above 1,100m that rises abruptly from the Western Downs, about 200km north-west of Brisbane.

Checked 8 October 2026

QLD

Eungella

Eungella National Park protects the cloud-wrapped Clarke Range plateau above the Pioneer Valley — 80km west of Mackay, where the Broken River's viewing platforms give one of Australia's most reliable looks at a wild platypus.

Checked 8 October 2026

QLD

Wooroonooran

Wet Tropics World Heritage rainforest across the Bellenden Ker Range between Cairns and Innisfail — Queensland's highest peak, tiered waterfall walks, a 19km through-walk and riverside camping.

Checked 8 October 2026

QLD

Main Range

Queensland's Main Range National Park — not the Main Range walking track in Kosciuszko National Park, New South Wales — is the volcanic escarpment of the Scenic Rim, 116km south-west of Brisbane, where the Cunningham Highway climbs through Cunninghams Gap and World Heritage rainforest rises to Bare Rock at 1,168m.

Checked 16 October 2026

QLD

Conway

Conway National Park covers the Cape Conway peninsula south of Shute Harbour — the largest area of lowland tropical rainforest in Queensland outside Tropical North Queensland, with ridge lookouts over the Whitsunday Passage and beaches you walk to instead of cruise to.

Checked 8 October 2026

QLD

Paluma Range

Paluma Range National Park sends waterfalls and rainforest creeks off the ranges between Townsville and Ingham, with a cool misty village at the top of Mount Spec Road.

Checked 14 October 2026

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Carnarvon Gorge

Purnululu National Park

Flinders Ranges

Karijini National Park

Wallaman Falls

Wilsons Promontory

Freycinet National Park

Hinchinbrook Island

Kakadu National Park

Warrumbungle National Park

Bungonia National Park

Capertee Valley

Bunya Mountains

Eungella

Wooroonooran

Main Range

Conway

Paluma Range

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The places worth going out of your way for

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Places we'd send a good friend

Carnarvon Gorge

Purnululu National Park

Flinders Ranges

Karijini National Park

Wallaman Falls

Wilsons Promontory

Freycinet National Park

Hinchinbrook Island

Kakadu National Park

Warrumbungle National Park

Bungonia National Park

Capertee Valley

Bunya Mountains

Eungella

Wooroonooran

Main Range

Conway

Paluma Range

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