Walks Tracks and Trails of Queensland’s Tropics

Queensland’s tropics provide numerous environments for enjoyable walking, lush rainforests, cloud shrouded mountains, extinct volcanoes, savannah woodlands and magnificent beaches on the coast and Great Barrier Reef islands.

This book brings together more than 150 of the best walks, tracks and trails in Queensland’s tropics, located within the coastal strip between Rockhampton and Cooktown. Walks vary from short boardwalk strolls in the lowland rainforests of Daintree National Park to 4-6 day hiking and camping trips on Hinchinbrook Island. Other routes follow gold miners’ and forestry tracks or coaching routes or feature historical sites, rivers, lagoons, geological and geographical formations or much earlier Aboriginal communication tracks where Dreamtime stories add a further dimension. Man-made environments of abandoned gold mines, heritage riverfronts, Art Deco streetscapes and Second World War installations also feature. Most routes are best completed during the dry season (May to September) and walked by moderately fit individuals. Most do not require specialist navigation or bushcraft skills.

Walks, Tracks and Trails of Queensland’s Tropics, highlights the best the region has to offer. Easy to interpret maps are included to help you navigate, and the book’s size makes it convenient to carry in  a backpack.

• Author Derrick Stone
• ISBN 9781486303076
• Pages 280
• Format Paperback
• Published 2016
• Reprinted 2018
• Publisher CSIRO Publishing