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Highlights for a three-day journey Travel time 6.5 hours for a 262km one-way drive from Cardwell to Undara Drive times are approximate and can vary depending on the condition of dirt roads. The Kirrama Range Road is suitable for four wheel drive vehicles and motorcycles. Murray Valley Lookout 4km from Tucker’s Lookout Murray Valley is a rich ecological and cultural landscape incorporating three national parks. Kirrama National Park provides a habitat for yellow-bellied gliders, Girringun National Park is where Blencoe Falls are located and Girramay National Park is named after the area’s traditional owners. Society Flats Cardwell 10km from Murray Valley Lookout Undara 24km (1.5 hours from Kennedy) The historic timber settlement of Society Flats from the 1930s-40s marks the top Cardwell of the Kirrama Range. The flat grassed area was surrounded by magnificent trees Undara 183km (2.5 hours) south of Cairns which were never logged. The 720m circuit rainforest walk is an easy 45 minute 101km (1 hour) from Mount Garnet 165km (2 hours) north of Townsville walk past the giant kauri pines and rose gum trees that are features of the forest. 275km (4 hours) from Cairns Cardwell is the gateway to Australia’s largest island national park, Hinchinbrook Undara is an Aboriginal word for a long way and the Undara Lava Tubes, which Island, and its world-class Thorsborne Trail. The Hinchinbrook waterways Blencoe Falls stretch for 160km, are the longest lava tubes in the world. Ancient roof collapses are renowned for their fishing and boating, while the surrounding World 38km (1.5 hours) from Society Flats have created deep impressions in the tubes allowing rainforest plants and animals Heritage rainforest has waterfalls, swimming holes and trails for walking and After the mountainous forest the landscape changes to open grassland savannah as to thrive in unique ecosystems. Savannah Guides conduct tours of the tubes and mountain biking. Cardwell has been rebuilt since 2011’s Cyclone Yasi, now you approach Blencoe Falls. The Falls plunge 90m to a pool below, before cascading take you on a sunset tour to experience the wildlife. Undara Experience on the boasting a 4.2km beachfront walkway, free BBQs, playgrounds and a waterfront a further 230m to the bottom of the gorge. There is a national park campsite with edge of the Undara Volcanic National Park has unique accommodation, camping amphitheatre. Learn about its history and wildlife at the Cardwell Rainforest toilets, private and group camping areas. Blencoe Falls lookout is an easy 20 minute and home-style meals. and Reef Information Centre and at the historic Cardwell Museum and Bush walk, while the Jabali walk Telegraph Station. The Cardwell Art Gallery has local arts and crafts and the which also takes in Blencoe Events Girringun Aboriginal Art Centre is where you can see contemporary and Falls lookout is a 5km April – Outback Rock & Blues September – Ona Mission traditional art from the region’s nine traditional owner groups. Cardwell has a return walk through open variety of accommodation including caravan parks, hostels, motels and B&Bs, a at Undara Experience Multisport Adventure, eucalypt forest. Here you Mission Beach supermarket and a host of specialty shops and eateries. can access the Wet Tropics May – Mount Garnet Rodeo, Great Walk, a 110km Cardwell UFO Festival October – Opera in the Kennedy network of world-class June – Mount Garnet Races Outback at Undara Experience, 10km (10 minutes) north of Cardwell long distance walks. Cardwell Barra Bonanza 62km (3 hours) to Blencoe Falls August – Cardwell Mountain Turn west off the Bruce Highway at Kennedy and travel through cane fields to Mount Garnet Bike Race, Cardwell Sacred the base of Kirrama Range to drive through lowland eucalypts, tangled vine 96km (2 hours) from Blencoe Falls Moon Festival forest and tropical rainforest on the steep and winding Kirrama Range Road. From Blencoe Falls turn on to the Kirrama-Cashmere Road and drive for 40km to The Kirrama Range Road is one of the few places where you can drive through a Gunnawarra Road. It is then 52km to the Kennedy Highway with the turnoff 4km waterfall. The twin Juberin Waterfalls cascade down a steep rock face on to the west of Mount Garnet. Turn left to travel to Undara and follow the signs along the Road conditions Savannah Way. road surface and then continue down beneath the road. The Kirrama Range Road is unsealed, but generally well graded. Tucker’s Lookout Visit www.nprsr.qld.gov.au/parks/blencoe-falls/ to check for park alerts and road closures. 10km from Kennedy The George William Tucker Monument and Lookout has panoramic views across the Kennedy Camping Valley to Hinchinbrook Island. Tucker was a well- known and experienced surveyor from the 1930s A camping permit must be booked and paid for before you arrive at who led the survey to plan the route for the Blencoe Falls camping area in Girringun National Park. Kirrama Range Road. Blencoe Falls Book online at www.nprsr.qld.gov.au or call 137 488. Experiences Information Wildlife Heritage www.tropicalcoasttourism.com.au www.wettropics.gov.au/kirrama-range-road Kirrama National Park is home to an The Kirrama Range Road was built Cardwell Rainforest and Reef Visitor Information Centre, array of animals including Lumholtz’s between 1935 and 1941 and was 142 Victoria Street, Cardwell, phone (07) 4066 8601. tree kangaroo, possums, cassowaries and considered an engineering feat at the musky rat-kangaroos. Reptiles like the time with its stone pitched walls and amethystine python and frogs including bridged creek crossings still standing. Getting there and exploring the rare tapping green eyed frog can be The Kirrama region was once interlaced further afield Mahogany glider discovered while giant white-tailed rats Buff-breasted paradise kingfisher with numerous Aboriginal trading routes Image: D Dickson – Wildcard Art 2015 Wildcard D DicksonImage: – and fawn-footed melomys may be heard Art 2015 Wildcard D DicksonImage: – which were later used by the gold escort, ◆ Drive from Cairns along the Great Green Way via Innisfail, Glider spotting scattering the leaf litter.