Summary

From Gympie to Bundaberg. This region is known for...

History

Any interesting history for the region?

Features

What are the standout bushwalking features?

Access

How do you get there? Include all access points if there are many?

Maps

Which maps cover the region?

Accommodation

Where can I stay there? or near there?

Camping

Council Areas

1. Gympie Regional 
2. South Burnett Regional
3. North Burnett Regional
4. Fraser Coast Regional
5. Bundaberg Regional

Contact details

See QLD National Parks Website: ..

Walks in Great Sandy National Park

Easy

5.3 km return

90 mins

Mill Point

Walk through allocasuarina and paperbark forests. Take a 400m side track to Mill Point and follow the self-guided historical walk to the site of a timber mill township that flourished from 1872 to 1892.

Easy

3.2 km return

1 hr

Mill Point Cemetery

An easy flat walk through woodlands and along fire trails to a memorial in honour of the early Mill Point settlers.

Easy

4.2 km return

90 mins

Poona Lake walk

Easy walk through tall forest with kauri and hoop pines, piccabeen palms and strangler figs

Medium

32 km return

2 days

Rainbow Beach to Double Island and return by Lake Poona

A beach walk from rainbow Beach to Double Island Point then onto Freshwater Camp Ground and an inland bushwalk back to Rainbow Beach.

Easy

6.4 km return

2 hrs

WW2 Commando School Walk

Z Special Unit was a joint Allied special forces unit formed during the Second World War to operate behind Japanese lines in South East Asia. Fraser Island was one of a number of training grounds for Australia's Special Operations programme during World War II.

Walks in Mount Walsh National Park

Easy

500 m return

15 mins

Coongara Falls

Short walk 500m return to waterfall and rock pools

Medium

4.2 km return

3 hrs

Coongara Rock

I have found this gem a challenging summit but only because the two times I have been up has been off-track. There is a track but I haven't been on it all the way. Awesome views of over Mt Walsh National Park and also west towards Coalstoun Lakes. Certainly some steep rocky sections and would not advise if wet or inexperienced.

Hard

4 km return

3 hrs

Mt Walsh

Fantastic views from the top of Mt Walsh. The climb can be difficult up at the last part. The trail is easy to follow if you have basic trail sense and is marked with flag tape and arrows painted onto rocks. No ropes are need but hand over hand climbing is required for the last part.

Hard

6 km return

5 hrs

Mt Walsh Tassels Track

If you've ever climbed Mt Walsh and stood out on the huge north bluff. You'd have looked down at the " four sisters " and drooled at the rocky boulders and peaks beyond.
This new track that my friends and I are marking out, turns Mt Walsh summit into an awsome through walk.

Easy

3 km return

1 hr

Mt Walsh Waterfall Creek (Utopia Falls)

This pleasant moderate grade walk to the rock pool area—a nice place to picnic, cool off in the shade beside the rock pools or just enjoy nature.
The walk begins in hoop pine dominated dry rainforest and vine thickets fringing a moist gully. Further on, open forests and grassy woodlands feature and merge into shrubby heath along Waterfall Creek.
The creek cascades through a series of rock pools that have potholed into the granite by years of water erosion. Cabbage palms, (Livistona decora), growing near the rock pools occur here at their most western limit. Further along Waterfall Creek, impressive water gums, (Tristaniopsis laurina), grow to over 25m high and wrap buttressed roots around rocks.
Look for wildlife as you walk. You might see wonga pigeons in the dark shaded understorey of the rainforest or catch a glimpse of white-throated treecreepers in the open forest and woodland. Swamp wallabies also use the track and red-necked wallabies often feed around the rainforest fringes.
Caution is required when accessing the creek as rocks may be slippery and unstable.