Kurrimine Beach National Park, National park with coastal rainforest in Queensland, Australia.
Kurrimine Beach National Park is a protected coastal area with lowland tropical rainforest in northern Queensland. The park combines dense forest vegetation with direct beach access, creating a landscape where trees meet sandy shores.
Kurrimine Beach National Park covers about 9.1 square kilometres in North Queensland, roughly 30 km south of Innisfail. It has been listed since 1988 as part of the UNESCO Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Area, recognised for its natural beauty, species diversity, evolutionary history and habitat for threatened animals. The park protects one of the few remaining areas of original coastal lowland rainforest.
The park lies within the Coastal Wet Tropics Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International for its importance to lowland tropical rainforest birds. It also forms part of the Wet Tropics of Queensland UNESCO World Heritage listing, recognised since 1988 for natural beauty, species diversity and habitat for threatened animals.
The park has no public access and no visitor facilities. From the Bruce Highway, take the Kurrimine Beach turn-off, then Jacobs Road to the Kurrimine Beach Conservation Area; the national park adjoins it to the north. The park lies about 30 km south of Innisfail and 180 km northwest of Townsville.
The park covers about 9.1 square kilometres and has no public access or visitor facilities; the adjoining Kurrimine Beach Conservation Area is reached via Jacobs Road off the Bruce Highway turn-off. It protects one of the few remaining patches of original coastal rainforest, listed since 1988 in the Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Area.
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