Location
110km north of Cairns, via the Cook Highway

Welcome
Kuku Yalanji, the traditional owners of Daintree National Park, welcome you and ask that you respect their special place. Their traditional country extends from near Cooktown, south to Mossman and west to the Palmer River.
What's special?
Rainforested mountains sweep down to long sandy beaches. One of the most biologically diverse areas in the world, the Cape Tribulation area was included in the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area in 1988.

Park Features
Daintree National Park is a complex of long sandy beaches, rocky headlands and steep mountain ranges intersected by numerous creeks and rivers. One of Australia’s last extensive stands of lowland rainforest is found here. Impenetrable ranges, rising steeply from the coast, are blanketed with dense upland rainforests that support many ancient plants and animals. This unique landscape is the traditional country of the Kuku Yalanji.

The Cape Tribulation Section of Daintree National Park (approximately 17,000ha) stretches in a narrow, discontinuous strip from the Daintree River in the south to the Bloomfield River in the north. Rising steeply up from the coast, the McDowall Range forms the western boundary of the park.

A visit to this area gives you a rare chance to experience two of Australia’s most significant World Heritage sites – the Great Barrier Reef and the Wet Tropics World Heritage Areas. Both areas are valued for their exceptional biological diversity.

Natural Environment
Daintree National Park is within the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area (WTWHA). Proclaimed in 1988, the WTWHA extends for about 450km between Cooktown and Townsville. Consisting of nearly 900,000ha, vegetation is primarily tropical rainforest, but also includes open eucalypt forest, wetlands and mangrove forests. The WTWHA meets all four natural criteria for World Heritage listing. These criteria recognise the area’s exceptional natural beauty and the importance of its biological diversity and evolutionary history, including habitats for numerous threatened species. The WTWHA also has cultural significance for Aboriginal people who have traditional links with the area and its surrounds..