Best Of All Lookout

It makes lofty claims... and meets them! This short walk is well worth the effort with excellent views of the Tweed Valley including Mt Warning, Byron Bay and The Cougals. Plus, it includes one of the most accessible stands of Antarctic Beech Forest (Nothofagus Moorei) in Queensland. If you haven't been there, make sure to stop off next time you're on the plateau.

Lookouts

No Dogs Permitted

No Camping Permitted

Rainforest

1026m

Maximum Elevation

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Getting there:

Off the Bruce Highway at Nerang on the Gold Coast take the Nerang Murwillumbah Road. Signposted after the dam take a left onto Pine Creek Road and left again onto Springbrook Road that leads you up onto and across the plateau to the various lookouts and walks.

Head to the end Repeater Station Road on the Springbrook Plateau.

Maps:

Springbrook National Park

Route/Trail notes:

The walk is a short stroll along a clear path. Make sure to check out some of the most accessible Antarctic Beech trees in South-East Queensland.

Permits/Costs:

None.

Other References/Comments:

The area is very busy particularly at weekends and parking can therefore be a problem.

If you have time, visit the Information Centre on the left just before Repeater Station Road, which was once the original schoolhouse.

GPS Tracks

No GPS available for this walk yet.

Comments

Easy walk with beautiful views
Peare on 5 Feb, 2016

Easy walk with a beautiful view
Peare on 31 Jan, 2016

Easy short walk to the lookout point. A must do detour for anyone in the area. It really was quite a spectacular view.
Guy on 29 Dec, 2015

If not best of all, pretty close... for gold coast
Pardo on 9 Apr, 2015

Took the kids for a quick walk. Unfortunately all in clouds but kind of expected that.
Richard Mason on 4 Apr, 2015

Worth the little walk for the views and antarctic beeches
Hugues Debeyser on 4 Apr, 2015

Easy walk - nice view
liteseer on 23 Jun, 2014

As always, amazing views. Was very clear and could see every mountain and even the ocean. A very easy, must see stop in my opinion.
Roxy on 3 Apr, 2014

Nice easy walk ... Great View !
DrummerJeff on 20 Oct, 2013

Short walk, great view. Awesome when it's cloudy inside the forest.
rob.bushman on 30 Mar, 2013

The Best of all Lookouts wasn't an ACTUAL big bushwalk. It just went for 700m and was really easy. Paths going into the forest so you could stand on the rocks and swing on the trees. There was also a massive thick tree protected by a fence which me and my mum didn't jump over. At the lookout you could see Mount Cougal, Mount Chincogan, The Sphinx and much more mountains
GiantChicken on 2013

Nice little walk. Seeing the Antarctic Beech trees is a must! Awesome view from the look out even if it was a hazy day. Nevertheless it was well worth the trip.
Stellar on 13 Jul, 2011

The Antarctic Beech trees are mesmerising and mysterious when a light fog is drifting through them.
Viking on 5 Jul, 2011

Lookout was in a cloud so there was nothing to see.
Gregory Neverov on 2 Oct, 2010

Great walk for the entire family. Views more than compensate even for those that don't like bushwalking.
Grumps on 2010

A breezy day to do this walk and loved the python on the path. It seemed to discourage others from the walk!
Laurence Hallam on 15 Dec, 2009

Does this one a few times over the years. Its a great little walk, passing great Antartic Beech trees on the way to one of the great lookouts.
Troy Kasper on 11 Nov, 2009