Springbrook Lyrebird Retreat

Springbrook is a nature lover’s paradise. The National Park is the heart of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area, rated as having outstanding universal values for its unique plants and animals including ancient Antarctic Beeches and the oldest songbirds on earth, Albert’s Lyrebird and the Rufous Scrub-bird. There are logrunners, riflebirds, bowerbirds, fruit pigeons….

Springbrook has Queensland’s most spectacular scenery. Long-drop waterfalls are readily visible from lookouts and reachable by National Park trails. The 25-kilometre network of short and long trails wind through dense ‘cathedral’ rainforests, tall eucalypt forests, and montane heaths that burst into spectacular flower in Spring. Canyon Lookout provides magnificent panoramas across the canyon’s impressive sheer rock walls, over incredible multicoloured rainforest canopies and across to the Pacific Ocean. The trail to Best of All Lookout, often shrouded in cloud, passes through rare Beech forests festooned with epiphytes. These are true cloud forests, rare in Australia and relicts of an ancient cooler, wetter era. On clear nights, the stars shine incredibly brightly in the pure mountain air.

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