Tully Gorge National Park

Tully Gorge National Park encompasses the river canyon and the surrounding wet tropical rainforest that makes the Tully River rafting experience possible. The gorge walls are cloaked in vegetation down to the waterline, with enormous ferns, strangler figs, and the buttressed trunks of rainforest giants. Cassowaries move through the lower areas of the park — unmistakeable, ungainly, and best kept at a distance.

Walking tracks from the Tully Gorge picnic area descend into the valley; the most accessible is a short loop through gallery forest to a lookout over the river. The swimming holes in the calmer upper sections of the gorge are worth finding, though they can be slippery after rain. The park is about 20 km inland from Tully, following the river road upstream.

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A story
The Tully Gorge was carved over millions of years by the Tully River descending from the rainforest ranges to the coastal plain. The entire watershed sits within the Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Area — a refuge for species that survived here while much of Australia dried out over the past few million years, including several frog species found nowhere else on earth.