Witches Falls
Value the past…
Witches Falls, now part of Tamborine National Park in the Gold Coast hinterland, was gazetted on 28 March 1908.
Witches Falls was the first park gazetted under Queensland’s Forests and National Parks Act, proclaimed on 14 December 1906.
Over the years additional reserves have been declared and today the park is made up of 13 sections on the Tamborine plateau and surrounding foothills.
The park protects remnants of Tamborine Mountain's plant communities and includes areas of rainforest with distinctive piccabeen palm groves, wet eucalypt forest dominated by tall flooded gums, open forest with bracken fern understorey, and woodland.
It’s home to the rare Albert's lyrebird and one of the world's largest skinks: the land mullet. The Richmond birdwing butterfly and noisy pitta migrate there seasonally from nearby higher-altitude rainforests.
Basalt columns, cliffs, rocky outcrops and waterfalls are a lasting legacy of volcanic eruptions 23 million years ago.
Further information
- Environmental Protection Agency
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- Centenary of Parks
- PO Box 15155, City East QLD 4002
- email centenaryofparks@epa.qld.gov.au
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Last updated: 09 April 2008
