Townsville Attractions

Alligator Creek Track (Attraction)
Bowling Green Bay National Park, Townsville, Queensland 4810, Australia

Alligator Creek flows through Bowling Green Bay National Park in a series of cascades, deep pools and waterfalls. The track to Alligator Falls meanders roughly parallel to the creek through the open forest to Hidden Valley. Discarded machinery is a rusty reminder of a failed farming enterprise. Across the creek the valley narrows, with Mount Elliot and Saddle Mountain framing the landscape. ...

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Australian Institute of Marine Science (Attraction)
Cape Cleveland Road, Cape Ferguson, Townsville, Queensland 4810, Australia

The Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) is a leader in tropical marine science. The Institute is consistently ranked among the top one per cent of specialist research institutions internationally and is known for its unique capacity to investigate topics from broad-scale ecology to microbiology. AIMS is committed to the protection and sustainable use of Australia's marine r ...

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Balgal Beach (Attraction)
Turn off via Bruce Highway, Townsville, Queensland 4816, Australia

Balgal Beach is a beachside community popular as a day and overnight trip destination for locals and tourists to Thuringowa and Townsville. Just a few minutes from Rollingstone, Balgal Beach features a stinger net, which is installed and patrolled from November to May, and an excellent boat ramp facility with easy access to the Palm Island group. It boasts a superb sand beach as well as a wide cre ...

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Bluewater (Attraction)
Turn off via Bruce Highway, Townsville, Queensland 4816, Australia

Bluewater hosts a picturesque fresh water attraction popular with picnic goers, including barbecues, toilets, showers and play equipment. Access the creek via the Bluewater Store (near the bridge), or Bluewater Park. Bluewater Park is a designated limited free tent and vehicle camping area. Download the flyer from the Thuringowa website for more information on free camping. The Urba ...

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Bowling Green Bay National Park (Attraction)
Bowling Green Bay National Park, Townsville, Queensland 4810, Australia

Diverse habitats are protected in Bowling Green Bay National Park, the largest coastal park in the region. Its coastal plains are dramatically set against a backdrop of rugged granite mountains rising abruptly in the distance. Camp overnight at Alligator Creek campground; or visit for the day, picnic among the gum trees and swim in the creek's deep pools. (The campground, picnic area and toile ...

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Bushland Beach (Attraction)
Turn off via Bruce Highway, Townsville, Queensland 4818, Australia

Bushland Beach is part of the Northern Beaches precinct of Thuringowa, located 15 minutes drive from Thuringowa central business district. Access to Bushland Beach is via a turnoff along the Bruce Highway. This beautiful stretch of beach is a suburban area with visitor accommodation and facilities available. Fishing, swimming and water activities permitted. At low tide, an old wooden shipwreck is ...

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Cape Pallarenda Conservation Park (Attraction)
End of Cape Pallarenda Road, Townsville, Queensland 4810, Australia

A scenic coastal park close to Townsville, Cape Pallarenda is the site of a former quarantine station dating from 1915. The buildings are typical 'Queenslander style' with high ceilings and wide verandahs. The park features ruins and relics from World War Two, when the cape was part of Queensland's east coast defences. Stroll through the old quarantine station and imagine life in a bygone era. Vis ...

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Cotters Markets (Attraction)
Flinders Mall, Townsville, Queensland 4810, Australia

Cotters Market is North Queensland's award winning arts and crafts market held every Sunday between 8.30 a.m. and 1.00 p.m. in Flinders Mall Townsville. Cotters Market is a great place to shop. They have ultra-fresh fruit and vegetables, stunning jewellery, original art works, massages, woodwork, stuffed toads, home-baked cakes, gifts for all occasions and entertainment. ...

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Dan Gleeson Memorial Gardens (Attraction)
Thuringowa Drive, Townsville, Queensland 4810, Australia

The Dan Gleeson Memorial Gardens are located along Thuringowa Drive, Kirwan in the city of Thuringowa (twin city of Townsville). The gardens feature a wide range of native flora situated amongst large lawn parks and paved pathways. The gardens also feature an artificial lake which attracts significant birdlife and a soundshell which is a venue for many community events and celebrations. Th ...

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Davies Reef Dive Site (Attraction)
Great Barrier Reef, Townsville, Queensland 4810, Australia

Davies Reef, off Townsville on the Great Barrier Reef, is home to a number of dive sites from large pinnacles with small caves to prolific coral gardens and drop-offs. Deep gutters cut through the reef where the walls are decorated with soft corals and gorgonians. Small tropicals and large numbers of pelagics congregate in the area. Dive sites include the Sisters, Coral Gardens and Atlantis. ...

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Goold Island National Park (Attraction)
Goold Island, Townsville, Queensland 4810, Australia

Goold Island National Park celebrates a pristine tropical island in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, where forests spill onto sandy beaches. Dugongs and turtles feed on seagrass beds in shallow waters surrounding the island. The park is significant to Aboriginal people. In the past they built extensive fish traps here. Relax, bush camp and picnic on the western beach and enjoy superb vi ...

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James Cook University of North Queensland (Attraction)
James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia

James Cook University offers study and research opportunities in a broad range of disciplines, whilst enjoying world leadership in subjects of special importance to the region. James Cook University increasingly focuses on a range of commercial links to allow industry to further benefit from expertise within the University. Disciplines include: Medicine; Occupational Therapy; Surgery; Nursing; Sci ...

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Lake Paluma (Attraction)
Lake Paluma, Townsville, Queensland 4816, Australia

Lake Paluma is an attractive lake surrounded by World Heritage Rainforest. It provides a water supply for approximately one third of the year. Access is via a 12 kilometres gravel road just past the Paluma township. There are weather proof shelters for day use with barbecues and camping sites for longer stays. All rubbish taken in must be removed, and no domestic animals are allowed. Swimming ...

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Lake Ross (Attraction)
Lake Ross, Townsville, Queensland 4815, Australia

Owned by NQ Water, Lake Ross stores over 200,000 million litres of water and supplies up to 80 per cent of the region's potable water supply. The dam wall stretches 8.3 kilometres across the Ross River floodplain (longest in the Southern Hemisphere) providing an additional flood mitigation benefit to the downstream community. In recognition of its habitat values, Lake Ross is listed as ...

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Maritime Museum of Townsville (Attraction)
42-68 Palmer Street, Townsville, Queensland 4810, Australia

The Maritime Museum of Townsville is best known for its display about the doomed ship SS Yongala, sunk south of Townsville in 1911 with the loss of all 122 on board. The display includes a video recording showing the discovery and archaeology of the wreck, one of the world's premier wreck dive sites. Other fascinating exhibits include The Women's War Two display, which provides an insight into the ...

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