Ravenshoe | Millstream Falls | Koombooloomba Dam | Innot Hot Springs | Mount Garnet
Ravenshoe
At 920 metres above sea level, Ravenshoe (pronounced Ravens-hoe) is Queensland’s highest town. Sitting on the Great Dividing Range, it lies between the Wet Tropics rainforest to the east and the drier woodland of the Gulf Savannah to the west.
Waterfalls, walking trails and wildlife are all close by. Millstream Falls and Little Millstream Falls are just outside town, while Koombooloomba Dam and the Misty Mountains wilderness tracks provide more reasons to explore the surrounding country.
Ravenshoe is the highest point of the Misty Mountains walking tracks network, and is a great location for wildlife watching, particularly for platypus, 12 species of possums, 340 bird species and of course, Lumholtz’s tree kangaroo – which is just one of 14 species of kangaroo to be found in the area.
Historically Ravenshoe was a town with a proud heritage of extracting timber from the surrounding forests. Since 1987, when the government world heritage listed 900,000 hectares (2,200,000 acres) of surrounding rainforest, the main industries have been tourism, beef and dairy farming.
The locals live a lifestyle to be envied, and celebrate it every year in the annual Torimba Festival of the Forest in October.
