Davies Creek Falls Circuit
Far North Queensland
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Close to Cairns and Mareeba, Davies Creek National Park is a favourite spot for locals. It offers a spacious picnic area and camping facilities, spread out amidst the rocky platforms and shady trees by the creek. Visitors can negotiate the rocks and swim in the pools in this area at their leisure. Davies Creek Falls is a magnificent waterfall which cascades over huge granite boulders
Getting there
Davies Creek National Park is along a dirt road, seven kilometres off the Kennedy Highway. The turn off is signposted about 21 kilometres from Kuranda on the way to Mareeba. To reach the Falls Circuit, drive past the camping and picnic areas and follow the narrow road to the top of the hill. Just before the gate there is a small carpark on your left and a track leading down to the falls lookout.
Maps
https://parks.des.qld.gov.au/parks/davies-dinden-bare-hill/pdf/davies-dinden-map.pdf
Route/Trail notes
Details: This circuit track begins in the car park, 2km past Lower Davies Creek camping area along Davies Creek Road. The marked trail leads to two lookouts. One provides a view back along the valley while the other overlooks Davies Creek Falls as it plunges into the valley below
From the lookout, the track continues alongside a tranquil section of the creek lined with paperbark trees, pandanus and banksias. The track then leads to a sandy creek-side picnic and swimming area, and returns to the car park up a slope dotted with grass trees.
Permits/Costs
free
Other References
https://hikingtheworld.blog/2022/03/13/davies-creek-falls-circuit-track/
GPS Tracks
- No GPS available for this walk yet.
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