Tully Falls Lookout - QLD

Located within the Tully Gorge National Park, the Tully Gorge Falls lookout was once a Queensland destination icon. However, in the late 1950s, the Tully River was dammed further upstream for the Kareeya Hydro Power Station. Consequently, Tully Falls has been reduced to a mere trickle and only holds a solid flow following very heavy rain.

As soon as you arrive at the Tully Gorge lookout, you can park your car in the wide clearing and walk directly over to the fence, which is the old Tully Gorge Falls lookout. Usually, the waterfall is all dried up, but take the Rainforest Walk track to your right. If you're keen, you can keep going past the sign into the shrubs (head left) and out onto the rocky plateau above the drop. This rock area shows all the carved-out channels from its previous life as the spillway of the waterfall. Here you may even find water in the natural infinity rock pools near the edge. These are the rockpools that you'll see in social media where people film themselves using a drone swimming in the infinity pools. Note this area is high altitude (700m) so can be quite cold, and very dangerous.