Queensland Holidays - Plan Your Trip - About the Route
About the Route
Stretching 2,691km, the Great Inland Way links metropolitan Sydney with the enchanting outback concluding in Cairns or Cooktown, right on the shore of the Coral Sea and home to the stunning Great Barrier Reef.
The Great Inland Way traverses the mighty Great Dividing Range - over mountain ranges with craggy cliffs, across wide-open plains to fields of sparkling gemstones, through world heritage-listed rainforests and welcoming towns.
It passes cascading waterfalls, secluded hideaways, vines laden with grapes, emerald green coffee plantations, and crops ripening ready for harvest.
Add to that, fascinating dreamtime legends and ancient art galleries, splashes of tasteful colonial heritage left over from Australia's colourful pioneering past, locals with intriguing yarns and tales, the chic, the amusingly quirky and you'll soon appreciate why the Great Inland Way is the 'Australian drive of all drives'.
