Places To Visit

Cape Melville National Park
Cooktown

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Cape Melville National Park combines massive granite boulders of the Melville Range with sandstone escarpments of the Altanmoui Range and inland dunefields. These features form part of a living, Aboriginal cultural landscape. Bush camp at Bathurst Bay behind the beach. Drive to Jones Gap for impressive views to Altanmoui Range and south to the Howick River. Look for pied imperial-pigeons and Papuan frogmouths.


CONTACT DETAILS

Phone: 13 0013 0372
Tollfree: 1300 130 372
Email: csc@epa.qld.gov.au
Web: www.epa.qld.gov.au/projects/park/index.cgi?parkid=147

ENTRY INFORMATION

Free Entry:
Yes.

FURTHER INFORMATION


Children: Children are welcome.

How to get There

Western access is through Lakefield National Park and Kalpower Aboriginal land, 12 hours north of Cairns. Southern access is via the Starcke Road, 12 hours north of Cooktown. Accessible by Four Wheel Drive during the dry season only, May-October.