Mitchell River National Park

Mitchell River National Park is about 300 km from Melbourne. Take the Princes Highway and follow the Bairnsdale-Dargo Road to Waller Rd. Access to the falls is by 4WD only from Gibb River Road, and may be limited during wet season.

Facilities in the park include guides, picnic areas, car parking, coach parking, public toilets, and picnic shelters.  There are basic camping facilities throughout the park.

The thundering Mitchell Falls are famous, as they’ve been photographed and featured in films. You can take the bushwalking track to the falls, and you can also take a dip there in the pool of water the falls formed. There are light plane flights and chopper rides available over the falls so that you can see them in all their glory.

Reaching the Mitchell plateau otherwise is a 4WD project, but definitely worth the trip. The Plateau is filled with rainforest, and open stands of gum trees, palm and paperbark trees. A large variety of mammals, saltwater crocodiles, snakes, and a diverse array of birds also make their homes here.  The park also has other natural sites: Merton Falls and Surveyors Pool, as well as the King Edward River, and there are ancient rock art sites untouched for thousands of years.