Length: 17km
Duration: 6hrs
Grade: 3
Style: Return
Start: 35867 Bruce Hwy, Alligator Creek
End: 35867 Bruce Hwy, Alligator Creek

Location: Bowling Green Bay National Park
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Distance from CBD: 1,311 km
State: QLD
Latitude: -19.40613055
Longitude: 147.0052242

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Alligator Falls Track is a 17km, grade 3 return hike, located in Bowling Green Bay National Park, Queensland. The hike should take approximately 6hrs to complete.

Hike Summary

In the Mount Elliot section of this park, Alligator Creek flows through the landscape in a series of cascades, deep pools and waterfalls. The Alligator Falls track starts from the southern end of the Alligator Creek day-use area.

About the region

Bowling Green Bay is a national park in the Shire of Burdekin, Queensland, Australia, 1,103 km northwest of Brisbane, and 28 km south of Townsville and 59 km north of Ayr. It is a Ramsar Convention listed Site. The park protects diverse range of habitats including the rugged, forested landscape surrounding Mount Elliot and Saddle Mountain as well as coastal estuaries between Cape Cleveland and Cape Bowling Green.

Mount Elliot rises 1,342 m and has numerous creeks on its eastern slopes, of which, Alligator Creek is the most important. The creek is a popular place to swim and to watch birds drinking the creek's water or feeding on riparian vegetation.

The parks incorporates the floodplains of the Haughton River. This includes one of the largest wetlands on the east coast of Australia. The wetland arose as the coastal streams deposited material into the calm waters of Bowling Green Bay. It is composed of mud and sand flats, swamps, isolated hills, mangrove forests and inter-tidal flats.[3] Behind the areas where mangroves grow are bare salt pan. These wide expanses are a unique characteristic of North Queensland wetlands produced by comparatively low rainfall and a short wet season that never washes the salt away.

For more information on this hiking trail, please visit Queensland.com