Blackbraes National Park, Nature reserve in Charters Towers Regional, Australia.

Blackbraes National Park protects ironbark woodland across the Einasleigh Uplands and Gulf Plains bioregions, with the highest point of the Gregory Range inside its boundary. Its hilly interior is ringed by basalt rock steps, and the plateau about 850 m up holds black soil and, in the wet season, swampland such as Emu Swamp. The Gilbert and Einasleigh rivers rise here.

Blackbraes National Park lies on the Einasleigh Uplands and Gulf Plains bioregions, where the Gilbert and Einasleigh rivers rise. Its hilly interior is ringed by basalt rock steps, with black soil and the seasonal Emu Swamp on a plateau about 850 m high. The adjacent Moonstone Hill Reserve is an old volcanic crater where gemstones are found.

The park lies within the traditional country of Aboriginal groups of the Etheridge and Lyndhurst area, and its name comes from the pastoral property of Blackbraes. Visitors today see the landscape as part of that living country, with the Emu Swamp wetlands and ironbark woodlands still used for hunting and gathering by Traditional Owners.

Access is via the Kennedy Developmental Road. Camping is permitted beside Emu Swamp only in the dry season, from March to November, when the swamp is mostly dry; the German source gives May to November. The plateau lies about 850 to 900 m above sea level, and dry-season daytime temperatures can still reach 35 °C.

The area sits at a higher elevation with cooler temperatures and more rainfall than surrounding regions. This creates special conditions for specialized plants and animals that thrive in these cooler microclimates.