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Queen Mary Falls

Queen Mary Falls


Queen Mary Falls is an attractive waterfall plunging some 40m over what seemed to be a basalt wall.

What was surpring to me during our visit to this waterfall was a sign indicating that the general area here was part of the Murray-Darling catchment. I found it hard to believe, but if true, it would be quite an amazing river system considering it stretches as far as
South Australia and even demarcates much of the New South Wales/Victoria border.

Admittedly, we didn't allow ourselves much time to really enjoy this waterfall. We only saw the falls from the upper overlooks, but there was a longer walk (I think a 2km circuit walk) that went to the waterfall's base. I still wished we did it (2km was totally manageable), but we did spend nearly 3 hours just getting all the way here, it was getting late in the afternoon where we still had to return to Byron Bay, and Julie didn't feel like doing the full circuit. Oh well, maybe next time...

Directions: Queen Mary Falls is near the town of Killarney (itself near the Great Dividing Range by the Queensland/New South Wales border).

I believe it's about a 2-hour drive from Brisbane to the car park for this falls, but we drove here all the way from Bryon Bay, and that took 3 hours each way.

More specifically, from the Pacific Hwy near Byron Bay, we exited onto Bangalow Rd and followed it for about 32km to Lismore. From Lismore, we headed west on Kyogle Rd for about 36km turning right onto Summerland Way (Hwy 91). We followed Hwy 91 for about 63km turning left onto Mt Lindesay Hwy (Hwy 13) following this for about 48km turning right onto Killarney Rd.

We went north on Killarney Rd for about 6km then turned right onto Spring Creek Rd (I believe there are signs here for the waterfalls at this point). We then followed Spring Creek Rd for about 7km to the Queen Mary Falls car park (passing by Browns Falls and Daggs Falls en route).

I recalled there was additional signage near the car park indicating there was another waterfall in the vicinity called Cheviot Falls, but we didn't visit it.

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Hmm, which way should we go?Hmm, which way should we go?

Queen Mary Falls and walk going across its baseThe falls and walk going across its base

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