National Park "Lamington" located on the same plateau on the ridge McPherson on the border of Queensland and New South Wales, 110 km from Brisbane.

The park is famous for its amazing nature - rain forest, ancient trees, waterfalls, breathtaking views from mountain passes, variety of animals and birds. It is part of the World Natural Heritage Site "Rain Forest Gondwana." Most of the park is located at an altitude of 900 meters above sea level, just 30 km from the coast of the Pacific Ocean. Needless plateau and mountains "Lamington" and the nearby national park "Springbrook" - the remains of a huge volcano Tweed, which is more than 23 million years!

For at least 6000 years in these mountains live the local Aborigines. Disappeared tribes vangerriburra (wangerriburras) and nerangballum (nerangballum) believed to pay their home, but about 900 years ago, the natives began to leave these places. The first Europeans to explore the area of ​​the park were Captain Patrick Logan and Alan Cunningham in the mid 19th century. Soon there began intensive production of wood.

In the 1890s, a local activist Robert Martin Collins called on the government to protect these forests from being cut down, he even appealed to the Parliament, but died before the MacPherson Ridge was taken under protection. Later, another activist, Romeo Leyi, organized a campaign to organize the first in Queensland protected area on the ridge. National Park "Lamington" was created in 1915 and was named in honor of Lord Lamington, the Governor of Queensland from 1896 to 1902.

Pristine mountain landscapes, waterfalls, caves, rain forest, heather-covered steppe, picturesque bay, a huge variety of wildlife and some of the best hiking trails in Queensland - all this is under the protection of the national park "Lamington." In 1979 the park, visited the famous British TV presenter David Attenborough for the filming of the documentary "Life on Earth".

Many plants of the park are found nowhere else on earth, such as myrtle Lamington, Euphrasia Mount Merino and hardy daisy, which has been preserved here since the last ice age. You can also see the plants, endangered species, such as the spotted orchid.

The park - one of the most important in the region, habitat of wild animals, including rare and endangered species such as fig parrot Cox, Eastern schetinkoklyuvka, Lyrebird Elberta, ptitsekrylka Richmond. Blue crayfish found only in Lamington Lamington Plateau in ponds and streams at an altitude of 450 meters above sea level. Among other rare inhabitants of the park - striated frog Flea giant striped frog and wood frog cascade.

"Pearls" of the park - Bole 500 waterfalls, including Elabana and Ranning Falls Creek Falls in southern parts, which are cast in an almost vertical canyon.

The park has a well-developed network of hiking trails - more than 150 km were built in the days of the Great Depression, and laid it in a way that walking on them tourists will never feel out of breath. Where were inevitable mountainous slopes rather steep paths were built step. Some of the trails are short enough, for the development of others may take up to 7 hours. One of the most popular tourist destinations - the 23-kilometer border - runs right along the border between the states of Queensland and New South Wales at the top of the ridge McPherson.