Main Range National Park | Brisbane | Queensland Country

The track leads to the pristine Dalrymple Creek. Photo credit: Maxime Coquard © Queensland Government

Impressive mountain peaks, escarpments and ridges offer breathtaking views. Photo credit: © Janette Asche

North Branch track

Explore Goomburra's fragrant eucalypt forest alongside a pristine mountain stream that is alive with birdlife.

Journey type: Walk
Distance: 1km return Start and finish points are the same and the traveller must return via the same path
Time suggested: Allow 20min walking time.
Grade: Grade 4 walking track

Accessible by

Conventional vehicle

Journey facilities

Walking

Heading off from the locked gate opposite the Kurrajong picnic area, you’ll be serenaded by a symphony of frog and bird calls.

Endangered Fleay's barred frog call this part of the creek home. Listen for the distinctive and throaty ‘ok-ok-ok’ call of solitary males. If there are a few males around, they emit a long rasping ‘arrrrrrr’ chorus.

This park is part of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area, famed for its ongoing geological processes, evolutionary history, and diversity (especially of rare, threatened and endemic species).

Getting there and getting around

The North Branch track is in the Goomburra section of Main Range National Park, about 175km south-west of Brisbane.

The track starts opposite the Kurrajong picnic area at the locked gate.

Getting to the Goomburra section

The Goomburra section can be reached from both the New England and Cunningham highways.
From the New England Highway turn off the highway 3km south of Allora onto Inverramsay Road, follow Inverramsay Road, then Forestry Reserve Road east for about 35km to the park entrance.
From the Cunningham Highway turn off at Gladfield, 25km west of Cunninghams Gap or 13km east of the Cunningham and New England highway junction, and travel 8km to join Inverramsay Road, then follow Inverramsay Road, and Forestry Reserve Road to the park entrance.

For tourism information for all regions in Queensland, see Queensland.com, and for friendly advice on how to get there, where to stay and what to do, find your closest accredited visitor information centre.