cape york

  • Cooktown Discovery Festival

    Highlights includethe re-enactment of Captain Cook’s landing, Endeavour Ball, family entertainment and lantern parade.

  • Cooktown & Cape York Expo 2021: The Rising Tide – Reconciliation Rocks Music Festival

    Showcase of Indigenous and non-Indigenous performing artists – art, culture, language workshops, exhibitions, storytelling and tours.

  • Haggerstone Island

    Haggerstone Island is located on the Great Barrier Reef, about 600 kilometres north of Cairns alongside the rugged Cape York [more…]

  • Lizard Island

    Lizard Island is truly secluded from the rest of the world. With 24 powdery-white beaches and 40 luxurious suites, it [more…]

  • Nature’s PowerHouse Visitor Information Centre, Gallery and Cafe

    Nature’s Powerhouse is a much loved community asset situated in the magnificent Cooktown Botanic Gardens. Operating as a social enterprise [more…]

  • Rinyirru (Lakefield) National Park (CYPAL)

    Journey through golden sandstone hills and sweeping grasslands, boat along scenic coastal estuaries and vast river systems, and delight in [more…]

  • Mount Cook National Park

    Rising 431 metres above the surrounding landscape, rugged Mount Cook is the scenic backdrop to Cooktown. Lieutenant Phillip Parker King [more…]

  • Cape Melville National Park (CYPAL)

    Rugged yet beautiful, Cape Melville National Park (Cape York Peninsula Aboriginal Land) features the rocky headlands of Cape Melville, impressive [more…]

  • Little Annan Gorge

    Little Annan Gorge is a gorge and swimming hole on the Anna River near Cooktown. It is safe to swim [more…]

  • Milbi Wall (The Story Wall)

    To acknowledge the significance of the first known European contact with the Aboriginal people of the area, Cook Shire Council [more…]

  • Mary Watson Monument Cooktown

    This monument was erected in 1886 by the residents of Cooktown honouring Mrs Mary Watson. Mary, her infant son and [more…]

  • Cooktown War Memorial

    Recruitment for WWI in the Cooktown region drew men from the tin mining industries around Rossville and Shiptons Flat to [more…]

  • Quinkan Reserves Ancient Rock Art

    Famous for its rock art, Quinkan Country contains a large and dramatic body of prehistoric rock paintings. These galleries have [more…]

  • Wujal Wujal

    Wujal Wujal is the local Kuku-Yalanji clan name meaning ‘many falls’, highlighting the many sacred waterfalls in their landscape. This [more…]

  • Weipa

    Weipa is a mining town built by Comalco to house its employees and their families, government workers and support people [more…]

  • Seisia

    Seisia is Australia’s most northerly community and departure point for a range of marine based activities – day trips with [more…]

  • Pormpuraaw

    Visitors come from all over Australia to enjoy the excellent fishing at Pormpuraaw, on the west coast of Queensland. Situated [more…]

  • Lockhart River

    Lockhart River was originally an Anglican Mission, relocated from ‘Old Site’ south of Cape Direction, to its present location on [more…]

  • Lakeland

    Lakeland is an agricultural region south-west of Cooktown on the inland route, and at the junction of the Mulligan Highway [more…]

  • Hope Vale

    Hope Vale Aboriginal community lies 40 kilometres north of Cooktown. Originally established as a Moravian Lutheran Mission on the east [more…]

  • Coen

    There’s plenty of life in the old mining community of Coen. Originally the town was created around a repeater station [more…]

  • Aurukun

    The Shire of Aurukun includes much of the traditional country of the Wik, Wik Way and Kugu people. It has [more…]

  • Wik and Kugu Art Centre

    The Wik and Kugu Arts and Crafts Centre is located in Aurukun – a small, remote Indigenous community on the [more…]

  • The Gamaay Dreaming Track

    This walking track will take you through a picturesque experience of tropical landscapes and ecosystems. Starting from a coastal terrain, [more…]

  • Kalkajaka National Park (CYPAL)

    An imposing mountain range of massive granite boulders is home to unique wildlife and rich in Aboriginal culture. At the [more…]

  • Jarramali Rock Art Tours

    Immerse yourself in an authentic Aboriginal cultural experience like no other. Through hidden rock art, unravel the ancient stories of [more…]