Forty Mile Scrub National Park, Nature reserve in Tablelands Regional, Australia

Forty Mile Scrub National Park is a nature reserve in the Tablelands region combining open woodlands, heathland, and grassland ecosystems. The park offers walking tracks and picnic facilities for visitors exploring these varied landscapes.

The park protects a remnant of dry woodland on the volcanic McBride Plateau, one of the few places in the region where this once widespread vegetation type survives. The Lynd Creek, Barwon Creek and Cleanskin Creek rise on the plateau and flow towards the Einasleigh River. The sources give no founding date for the park.

The park functions as an environmental research site where scientists study the relationships between inland dry rainforests and their surrounding environments.

The park is located roughly 224 kilometers southwest of Cairns and can be explored via marked trails. Visiting during cooler months provides more comfortable conditions for walking and outdoor activities.

The giant burrowing cockroach (Macropanesthia rhinoceros) lives here; at 8 cm long and 20 to 30 grams, it is the world's heaviest cockroach, the size of a mouse. Unlike pest species, it cannot climb smooth surfaces and shelters in burrows in the dry woodland soil.