Mapleton-Falls-Nationalpark

The Mapleton Falls National Park (English: Mapleton Falls National Park ) is a national park in the southeast of the Australian state of Queensland.

Location

It is located 95 km north of Brisbane and ten kilometers west of Nambour in the Blackall Range.

The park is on the Bruce Highway (exit Nambour ) accessible from Brisbane. Then turning to the west on the road to Mapleton, which is reached after eleven kilometers. On the Obi Obi Road can be reached after a further three kilometers of the park.

North of this is founded in 2011 the Mapleton National Park, which is almost 65 square kilometers larger multiples, two kilometers to the south is the Kondalilla National Park.

History

The waterfall Mapleton Falls in 1938 was declared a Forest Reserve. In 1973, the area was redesignated a national park.

Provincial nature

On the west side of the Blackall Range, the water of the Pencil Creek plunges 120 meters above the Mapleton Falls in depth. The pool of the waterfall surrounded by basalt columns, the evidence of volcanic activity in the area 25 million years ago.

Flora and Fauna

In the small National Park, there are sub-tropical rainforest and Au thin eucalyptus forest.

Long-tailed fruit pigeons (English Wompoo Fruit Doves ) and in summer frogs inhabit stream and forest.

Facilities

The tents in the park is not permitted. The Sunshine Coast Hinterland Great Walk, a 58 -mile long-distance trail runs through the park. There are also two shorter, of hiking trails, the Mapleton Falls Lookout Walk ( 50 meters) and the Wompoo Circuit Walk ( 1.3 km ).