Cronan Creek Falls Track

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Cronan Creek Falls (GPX)

From Yellow Pinch car park, a pleasant walk along the fire trail leads you past the base of South Ridge into green rainforest. (Note: the climb up South Ridge is rugged and steep and for experienced walkers only).

Waterfalls

Swimming

440m

Total Climb

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Getting there

These fall's get their 'secret' name because Cronan Creek Track does not lead directly to the fall's. To get to the fall's you have to find nearly a hidden little entry way off the main track and make your way through a thicket for about 100m before coming out onto the creek and then a short rock hop to the fall's.

Take the trail from Yellow Pinch Carpark and go through the turn style and head right.
Follow this fire trail straight ahead until you reach a gate with a cattle grid. You will pass beautiful countryside, mountainous view's and an open field that would be just spectacular when the wild flower's are out 🌻

Once through the gate, just keep following the fire trail. There are up and down part's to get the old heart pumping but nothing overly strenuous.

You will have 6 creek crossings to go through that after some rain can be quite deep. We took our boot's off once we were through the gate and put our water shoe's on until we returned back through 👟

Go past two camp site's and when you come to a fork in the trail, vere left. The right trail clearly mark's the way to Mt Barney summit.

When you hit the 6km mark keep an eye out on your left for a green post that mark's the entryway into the fall's.

From here make your way through the jungle and you will come out along the side of the creek. From here rock hop over to the other side and make your way down to the fall's and the amazing swimming hole 🏞

On the way back we detoured up to Yellow Pinch Lookout that gives you spectacular view's of Mt Barney.

Maps

You can't really go wrong - but there are a few wikilocs with this hike

Route/Trail notes

Keep hiking along the main track past South Ridge and you'll cross about 6 creeks and come to a small official sign on your left pointing towards the falls. It's 100m along a track to get to the creek and a small amount of rock hopping to the actual falls. Excellent swimming but the water is cool even in summer

Permits/Costs

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Other References

Track notes: https://hikingtheworld.blog/2018/07/08/cronan-creek-falls-secret-falls/

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Cronan Creek Falls (GPX)

Comments

I absolutely love this walk! I came to Mt Barney last year and did this walk and it was so rewarding with a magnificent waterfall and waterhole at the end, that I decided to come back and do it again. Plenty of wildlife, butterflies, wallabies, snakes, lace monitors and other reptiles. The walk is fairly easy, but long. It is not a very steep track, however in order to access the track itself, you need to go up the start of the Yellow Pinch Trail Lookout until you reach the gate, which is pretty steep. The track is very defined until the last 100m or so when you have to watch out for a cairn (rock stack). Do not go past the steep hill with the fallen tree or you will miss it! When you reach the cairn, you will have to go through the bush for about 100m and then you will come out at the stream then waterfall and waterhole. I would allow about 6-8 hours for this walk to get back to the Yellow Pinch carpark as we tend to spend about 2 hours at the waterfall and waterhole itself and it takes about 2-3 hours to walk to the waterfall from the carpark and vice versa. Overall this is one of my favourite walks and I would definitely recommend it!
Water...falls on 17 Jan, 2018

Good wildlife, wallabies, lace monitors, rainforest birds.
Rock hopping and creek crossing. Relatively easy walk but long and hot. You'll reach the first swimming hole which is lovely for a dip but keep going to get to the waterfall. Keep an eye out for the rock stack to indicate where to enter to get to the waterfall. Do not walk up the steep hill!
flashsam on 29 Jan, 2017

Lovely walk. Great swimming hole at the end.
oldcoastwalker on 4 Apr, 2016

This is a nice, relatively easy walk that leads you to some beautiful, cool and rainforesty spots with waterholes and creeks. Would have enjoyed it more if the track had been better signed - we got lost a number of times. Once you get to the Yellow Pinch carpark (right at the end of Upper Logan Road) follow the track that is signed for the South Ridge. The track splits after maybe a kilometre, maybe less. Take the pedestrian gate to the left (do not continue straight unless you want a tough uphill hike to see a beautiful view of the top of Mt Barney that doesn't lead you anywhere). Follow this fire trail through the grassland and through a gate with a cattle grate. Continue walking past the campsites signed 9 and 10, and where the track forks again, head left. The right fork is clearly signed toward the summit of Mount Barney, so don't go there. The left will continue to Cronan Creek. We stopped to get our feet wet in the beautiful light-blue water of the creek, and enjoyed seeing a couple of lace monitors, a snake, a vivid red king parrot, and of course, some kangaroos. Really beautiful, well worth a look as long as you know which turns to take.
mjorn_ on 18 Oct, 2015

Beautiful scenery. To spice it up you can rock hop until the waterfall
agms on 5 Jan, 2015

Walked along the fire trail crossing the creek several times have me a chance to test my new Gore-tex lined trail shoes... Yes they work Gore-tex truly is amazing...lol.. Did this walk in the morning and was back at camp for a lazy afternoon..
Walkinghawk on 13 Apr, 2012

Did this walk with walkinghawk. Was good to stretch the legs but didn't offer any challenges other than a few creek crossings and one large incline. Follows a fire trail to a dead end. I have heard that some waterfalls can be accessed, but the only one we could potentially get to was inaccessible. Maybe if we had a rope...
WorldWalker on 13 Apr, 2012