Lamington National Park Brisbane | Gold Coast

Enjoy magnificent views from the Numinbah lookout. Photo credit: Lightcapturer © Queensland Government

Lush rainforest, ancient trees and stunning waterfalls make Lamington National Park an outstanding place to visit! Photo credit: Nicholas Hill © Queensland Government

Daves Creek circuit

Fascinating forests, unusual volcanic features, magnificent views and a perfect picnic spot make this one of the best walks in the park.

Journey type: Walk
Distance: 12km circuit The same start and finish point, but the traveller doesn’t return along the same path
Time suggested: Allow about 4hr walking time.
Grade: Grade 4 walking track

Accessible by

Conventional vehicle

Journey facilities

Lookout (natural)
Walking

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From the Binna Burra trailhead, head along the Border Track for 2.3km before branching on the Daves Creek circuit track. Descend through the head of Woggunba Valley out into Daves Creek country. Keep an eye out for Surprise Rock—a volcanic dyke made of hardy trachyte, which is able to withstand erosion.

Enjoy magnificent views of Springbrook, Mount Hobwee, the Araucaria lookout and Numinbah Valley from Numinbah lookout. Be sure to stop and enjoy the cool surrounds of Picnic Creek.

The circuit passes through several distinctive vegetation types: warm and cool subtropical rainforest along the Border Track; warm temperate rainforest, containing many examples of ancient angiosperms such as coachwood Ceratopetalum apetalum, in Nixon Creek's headwaters; and wet sclerophyll forest with giant New England ash Eucalyptus campanulata, around the track intersection to the Ships Stern circuit. It's a botanical delight!

This park is part of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area, famed for its ongoing geological processes, evolutionary history, and diversity (especially of rare, threatened and endemic species).

Getting there and getting around

Daves Creek circuit is in the Binna Burra section of Lamington National Park, 110km south of Brisbane.

The circuit starts 2.3km along the Border Track from the trailhead at the Binna Burra upper day-use area.
The Binna Burra upper day use area is at the end of Binna Burra Road, 3.5km from the park entrance.

For more details on how to get to Lamington National Park, please see getting there and getting around.

Wheelchair accessibility

This circuit is not wheelchair accessible. There are wheelchair-accessible toilets at the national park’s Information Centre and picnic tables at the Binna Burra lower day-use area. The Binna Burra upper day-use area has wheelchair-accessible picnic tables and toilets.