Barron Gorge National Park is a national park in Queensland (Australia), 1,404 km northwest of Brisbane, 2 km from Kuranda and lies within the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area. The Kuranda Scenic Railway line passes through the park with a station at Barron Falls. One train runs from and returns to Cairns daily. The original weir, constructed in 1934 at the top of the falls, is visible from the station lookout.
Two waterfalls—Stoney Creek Falls an...
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Barron Gorge National Park is a national park in Queensland (Australia), 1,404 km northwest of Brisbane, 2 km from Kuranda and lies within the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area. The Kuranda Scenic Railway line passes through the park with a station at Barron Falls. One train runs from and returns to Cairns daily. The original weir, constructed in 1934 at the top of the falls, is visible from the station lookout.
Two waterfalls—Stoney Creek Falls and Surprise Creek Falls exist on tributaries of the Barron River within the park.
In 1885 the explorer Archibald Meston described the Barron Falls in flood where the raging waters "rush together like wild horses as they enter the straight in the dread finish of their last race ... (where) the currents of air created by the cataract waved the branches of the trees hundreds of feet overhead ... the rock shook like a mighty steamer tumbling with the vibrations of the screw."
In 1935 the waters of the Barron River were harnessed in the Barron Gorge...
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