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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Flinders Ranges
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Carnarvon Gorge
A 20km sandstone gorge system with permanent water, ancient cycads and some of Australia's most significant Aboriginal rock art.
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Porcupine Gorge
A sandstone canyon that opens straight out of flat outback savanna north of Hughenden, with permanent waterholes at the base — Queensland's mini Grand Canyon.
Conondale
Turquoise rock pools and cascades on Booloumba Creek in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, reached by a 4WD-only creek-crossing road that keeps it quieter than the region's better-known falls.
Mount Hypipamee
A near-bottomless volcanic crater lake on the Atherton Tablelands, viewed from a fenced platform at the end of a short rainforest walk.
Kroombit Tops
A remote Central Queensland tableland where a WWII bomber wreck sits in rainforest home to a critically endangered frog found nowhere else on Earth.
Mount Walsh
A tough, largely unmarked granite summit scramble near Biggenden, plus the Utopia Rock Pools swimming holes — a quiet North Burnett park most visitors have never heard of.
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