Daintree National Park: landscape and origins
The Rainforest Circuit Track leads into the heart of the lowland rainforest of Mossman Gorge – from the suspension bridge over Rex Creek.
From the shuttle stop the Baral Marrjanga boardwalk leads to the lookout on the Mossman River, then the Rex Creek Bridge Track continues to the suspension bridge. The loop starts beyond it.
Steep mountains behind the gorge catch the moisture from the sea; out of it grows dense, cool rainforest with strangler figs and epiphytes. A small lookout shows Manjal Dimbi (Mount Demi).
If you want to learn more about what the forest means to the Kuku Yalanji, book a Ngadiku Dreamtime Walk. In the wet season the track may be closed because of flooding or maintenance.
QPWS: Rainforest Circuit Track, Mossman Gorge ↗
The park in numbers
- Length
- 3.4 km loop
- Duration
- about 2 hours
- Difficulty
- Grade 3
- Start
- Shuttle stop, via Baral Marrjanga
- Bridge
- Rex Creek suspension bridge
- View
- Manjal Dimbi (Mount Demi)
- In the wet season
- sometimes closed
- Cost
- Shuttle A$15.50
