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Length: 102km
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Duration: 8 days
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Grade: 4
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Style: One Way
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Start: 199 Maximillian Rd, Noosa North Shore
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End: Foreshore Access, Noosa North Shore
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Location: Great Sandy National Park
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Closest Town:
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Distance from CBD: 142 km
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State: QLD
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Latitude: -26.35161338
Longitude: 153.0436707
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Great Sandy National Park...
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Hike Summary
The Cooloola Great Walk is located within Great Sandy National Park, Cooloola. The Cooloola Great Walk showcases the very best of Cooloola's outstanding natural attractions. The extensive walking track system winds for up to 102 kilometres through rainforest, tall eucalypt forest, dry coastal woodland and heath plains. You'll walk over vast sandblows, past perched lakes, along sandy beaches and see views of the long sweeping landscapes of the Cooloola coastline and the Noosa River lakes.
About the region
Great Sandy National Park is a coastal national park in the Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia.
The park features untouched beaches, large sand dunes, heathlands, rainforests, swamps, creeks, freshwater lakes and mangrove forests.
Great Sandy National Park is divided into two sections. The Cooloola section is situated on the coast between Noosa Heads in the south and Rainbow Beach in the north and covers 18,400 hectares (45,000 acres). The K'gari (Fraser Island) section encompasses almost all of the world's largest sand island, Fraser Island, situated north of Rainbow Beach, covering 56,000 hectares (140,000 acres).
The Cooloola section contains the Cooloola Great Walk, a five-day hiking trail. Boat tours and canoeing along the Noosa River are popular visitor activities. On Fraser Island is the 90 km long Fraser Island Great Walk. Lake Cootharaba offers fishing, sailing and canoeing opportunities.
Whale watching, fishing, four-wheel driving and bushwalking are also popular. The park also features two shipwrecks; the SS Maheno and the Cherry Venture.
The only place in the world where tall rainforest grows in sand is on Fraser Island. Fraser Island has coloured sand cliffs on its eastern beach as well as numerous walking tracks from short boardwalks to longer walks which cross sand blows.
Lake Wabby is a popular swimming and fishing spot.
Access to both sections of the park requires a four-wheel drive vehicle. Four-wheel drive vehicles on Fraser Island need to obtain a vehicle permit. Both sections have numerous camping areas.
For more information on this hiking trail, please visit Queensland.com
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27 thoughts on “Cooloola Great Walk (102km)”
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Gordon John Forrest Matthew Vincent
Looks great … let’s do it
Definitely
Megan Donohue LizandDave Friswell this could take our hikes to a whole new level!
Kerrie Fatone Simone Amos another QLD option??
Put it on the list
I did this in 2015, from Rainbow to Tewantin. It was a fantastic walk with great overnight campsites. It took 4 days without rest days which I thought was plenty of time.
Sophie Jane
yiiiiiiis
It will only take you 5! 8 is a bit too many and you would be between water points each night
Jack Gascard
Lauren Christian another one for us.
Didn’t even know that was here!
Suse Jamie on our doorstep ?
Been wanting to do this one. Just need to find a few days.
I’m keen too ??
Looks cool!
Delwyn Davis
Hurry up and retire
Delwyn Davis I didn’t win Powerball ?
Jane Spence
8 days, is that because when walking on the dunes it’s one step forward and slide back three.
Fiona?
Erin Weston
Any suggestion for a hike near Myall Lakes NP ?