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You are going to cover some serious kilometres exploring Australia’s vast interior so every faraway destination had better be worth the car time.
This collection of top places is guaranteed to impress the whole family with plenty of opportunities to swim, climb, bike, paddle and toast a marshmallow, and just enough facilities to clean the kids up afterwards.
“The setting is also rather mind-blowing as you paddle upstream into Lawn Hill’s staggered, deep gorges, following a vivid maze of fan palms and waterlilies”
1. PADDLE LAWN HILL GORGE, QLD
With straight off-the-bank swimming, toddler-friendly rock pools and a 6km-long canoe adventure beneath soaring, red rock walls, Lawn Hill Gorge couldn’t thrill families more. Located 100km offroad in Queensland’s remote northwest, Boodjamulla National Park also boasts riverside camping, Indigenous art sites and rates as one of the world’s best places to discover weird and wonderful fossilised, prehistoric Aussie animals via an easy, kid-friendly walking trail.
The setting is also rather mind-blowing as you paddle upstream into Lawn Hill’s staggered, deep gorges, following a vivid maze of fan palms and waterlilies to reach limestone waterfalls and deep, barramundifilled swimming holes.
The national park’s lovely riverside camps are a top deal at $26.20 per family with cold water showers, toilets and drinking water all provided. For
