Place Type
Reserves - National Parks,Reserves
Location
180.9kms SouthWest of Brisbane - Driving 245 km (3 hours 0 mins)
568.23kms North of Sydney - Driving 707 km (8 hours 12 mins)
Address & Contact
Girraween National Park
Queensland
Phone: N/A
Email: N/A
Web: https://parks.desi.qld.gov.au/parks/girraween
Information
Girraween is situated approximately 260km by road south-west of Brisbane. To reach the park, turn off the New England Highway 26km south of Stanthorpe or 30km north of Tenterfield. The winding bitumen road continues a further 9km east through the Wyberba Valley to the park information centre. The alternative road from Stanthorpe to Girraween via Eukey and Storm King Dam has some gravel sections.
Girraween National Park boasts massive granite outcrops, balancing boulders, clear running streams and spectacular wildflowers in spring. Golden wattles, yellow, red and purple pea flowers, dainty orchids and flannel flowers grow amid forests of red-gum, stringybark and blackbutt. Frogs, lizards and snakes rustle among the leaf litter. Brilliant turquoise parrots, yellow-tufted honeyeaters and superb fairy-wrens splash the granite-strewn countryside with colour, while red-necked wallabies, brush-tailed possums and spiny echidnas weave their way through the wonders of the woodland.
