About Ravensbourne

Park features

Piccabeen palms, ferns, elkhorns and fungi thrive in the cool, moist remnants of rainforest and wet eucalypt forest along the edge of the Great Dividing Range. The rainforest is slowly overtaking the open forest. Gullies with trickling streams are moist and inviting, while exposed ridges are warm and dry.

Listen for the calls of the green catbird, noisy pitta, eastern whipbird or wompoo fruit-dove that are often heard but rarely seen. Flocks of topknot pigeons feed in the piccabeen palms and large fig tree at the Cedar Block day-use area; while eastern yellow robins, white-browed scrubwrens and grey fantails are common visitors to the Blackbean day-use area.

On the edge of the Cedar Block circuit track, look for circular hollows on the rainforest floor made by the black-breasted button-quail Turnix melanogaster as it spins around while feeding. Spectacular red-tailed black-cockatoos and glossy black-cockatoos feed on casuarina seeds in the open forest in winter.

• Read more about the nature, culture and history of Ravensbourne National Park.

Looking after the park

See the guidelines on caring for parks for more information on what you can do to protect our environment and heritage into the future.

Park management

Ravensbourne National Park is managed by Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service under the Nature Conservation Act 1992 to preserve and present its natural and cultural values in perpetuity.

Tourism information links

Toowoomba Visitor Information Centre
www.visittoowoombaregion.com.au
82-86 James St, Toowoomba Qld 4350
Freecall 1800 331 155
email infocentre@tr.qld.gov.au

Hampton Visitor Information Centre
www.southernqueenslandcountry.com.au
8623 New England Highway, Hampton Qld 4352
Freecall 1800 009 066
ph (07) 4697 9066
email hamptoninfo@tr.qld.gov.au

Southern Queensland Country Tourism
www.southernqueenslandcountry.com.au
ph (07) 4632 1988
email enquiries@sqct.com.au

See the Department of Transport and Main Roads website or call 13 19 40 for information about road and travel conditions.

For tourism information for all regions in Queensland see Queensland Holidays.