Bamaga
Burketown
Cooktown

• Cape Tribulation
• Croydon
• Daintree
• Doomadgee
• Georgetown
• Karumba
• Kidston
• Laura
• Mount Molloy
• Normanton
• Palmer River
• Sweers Island
• Thursday Island
• Weipa

Natural Wonders

• Great Barrier Reef
• Morning Glory Cloud Formations
• Regional National Parks
• Map of Cape York Peninsula parks and reserves

Natural Attractions

• Bamaga: Bamaga Island; Badu Island; Horn Island (Heritage Museum); Thursday Island; Possession Island; Cape York (32 km north); Gulf of Carpentaria; Jardine River National Park; Gunshot Creek
• Croydon: Lake Belmore
• Georgetown: Newcastle Range; Copperfield Gorge; Cobbold Gorge; Etheridge River; Mount Surprise; gemfields of O'Briens Creek (topaz) and Agate Creek (120 km south, jasper, quartz and agates); Forsayth gem fields, Tallaroo Hot Springs, Undara Lava Tubes
• Kidston: Newcastle Range; Copperfield River
• Thursday Island: Endeavour Strait; Torres Strait; Prince of Wales Island; Badu Island; The Horn Island
• Burketown: Gulf of Carpentaria; Lawn Hill Gorges National Park (220 km south); Nicholson River; Adels Grove (established by French botanist Albert de Lestang in the 1930s as an experiment in the growing of tropical fruits and trees); Riversleigh Fossil Fields (55 km south-east of Adels Grove, which include huge flightless birds and other fossils dating back 20 million years; now in the Mt. Isa Riversleigh Fossils Display)
• Karumba: Gulf of Carpentaria; Norman River; Wellesley Group (Sweers Island; Mornington Island); Karumba Point; unusual morning tubular cloud formations known as Morning Glory
• Normanton: Gulf of Carpentaria; Carron River; Norman River; Mitchell and Alice River National Park; Staaten River National Park
• Cooktown: Coral Sea; Endeavour River; Branigan's Bluff; Mount Rose (extinct volcano); Isabella Falls; Cape Bedford; Endeavour River National Park (Endeavour Falls); Mount Unbelievable; Mount Milman; Black Mountains National Park; Cedar Bay National Park; Lakefield National Park; Mt. Numbarguime, 475 metres; Cooktown-Daintree Windsor tableland; Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Cairns Section; Cooks Passage; Cape Melville National Park (Bathurst Bay; Clack Island; Stanley Island; Flinders Island; Blackwood Island; Denham Island; Bathurst Head; Cape Melville); Lizard Island; Mt. Webb; Cedar Bay National Park; Black Mountain National Park; Annan Gorge; Princess Charlotte Bay
• Daintree: McDowell Ranges; Daintree River; Daintree National Park
• Coen: Iron Range National Park; McIlwraith Range (Janet and Tozer Ranges); Mungkan Kandju National Park (Rokeby Station; Archer Bend)
• Guthalungra: Cape Upstart National Park
• Mt. Malloy: Mount Danbulan (732 metres); Lake Mitchell; Hann Tableland
• Laura: Lakefield National Park

Waterfalls

• Bamaga: Elliot Falls; Fruit Bat Falls
• Rossville: Trevethan Falls; Hidden Falls
• Wujal Wujal: Bloomfield Falls
• Cooktown: Isabella Falls; Endeavour Falls

Historic Places

• Bamaga: World War II relics, including the wreck of a DC3 aircraft); Muttee Heads radar tower ruins; Bamaga Airfield aircraft wrecks; Possession Island cairn; Somerset ruins (22 km north)
• Croydon: Croydon Hotel; Croydon Historic Precinct includes surgeon's house (bottle museum), Court House (1887), mining warden's office, the Croydon General Store, the old gaol and butcher's shop, the hospital and Croydon railway station
• Kidston: Kidston gold mine relics and old gold battery
• Thursday Island: cemetery containing the graves of Japanese pearl divers; Green Hill Fort; Torres Strait Historical Museum
• Horn Island/Nurapa: Heritage Museum with pearl diving memorabilia; warplane relics; 1860s gold mine)
• Burketown: grave of Frederick Walker (71 km south); Old Boiling Down Works (1866); Post Office (1887)
• Karumba: old slipway from which the Sydney to England Empire Flying Boat Service operated
• Normanton: the Purple Pub; Albion Hotel; Bank of NSW (1896); The Gulflander railway and the Railway Station (1891)
• Cooktown: Captain Cook Memorial Lighthouse (1971); James Cook Historical Museum building (1886); Westpac Bank (former Queensland National Bank building, 1889); Powder Magazine; Old Cooktown Hospital; Jacky Jacky Building; Cooktown Cemetery; Chinese Shrine; Cooktown Sea Museum
• Cape Tribulation: Cape Tribulation; Coral Sea; Great Barrier Reef
• Kingsborough: Kingsborough Battery (1890s)
• Ravenswood: ghost town with remnant buildings and goldmining relics
• Mooroobool: House On The Hill (Experimental Station, 1896)
• Thornborough: General Grant Mine (1876-1924); Tyrconnel Mine (6 km, 1876-1942)
• Mt. Malloy: Mount Molloy Hotel; old steam engine and other mining relics

Misc. Attractions

• Georgetown: Cumberland Chimney (remnant of an old gold crushing plant built by Cornish masons); Cobbold and Copperfield Gorges Aboriginal rock art galleries
• Thursday Island: Cape York (northernmost tip of mainland Australia)
• Weipa: Weipa bauxite mine; Aboriginal canoe trees; Aboriginal shell mounds (around 200 000 tonnes of shells which seem to have been placed in the area about 800 years ago. How and why they got there is a mystery)
• Daintree: 'Big Barramundi'; Daintree Rainforest Discovery Centre; Timber Museum
• Laura: Split Rock Gallery, a significant collection of Aboriginal rock art depicting spirit figures (Giant Horse, Split Rock and Guguyanlangi Galleries); Jowalbinna art site; Normanby mining diggings

Journeys

• Drives: Cooktown Self Drive Tour; The Savannah Way
• Ferries: Daintree River Ferry
• Walks: Tropical North Queensland; Walking the Simpson Desert
• Railway: Gulflander; Savannahlander