Guides and Trips
Trips
Marathon 3Terrain: ½ dirt road; ½ bitumen0 – 12km: Cedar Park Rainforest Resort – Cedar Park Road – left
– Clohesy River Road (includes out and back to highway) – Fig Tree 12km – 25km: Clohesy River Road –
gate – Copperlode Dam Checkpoint 25km – 39km: (Bitumen) Lake Morris
Road – Checkpoint at base of Lake Morris Road39km – 42.2km: (Bitumen) Lake
Morris Road – right – Reservoir Road – cross over Ramsey Drive –...
Marathon 2:
Terrain: Dirt roads0km – 7 km: Cedar Park Rainforest Resort – Cedar Park Road – left – Clohesy River Road – right – Viviers Track7km – 13km: Viviers Track - Bridle
Creek Road Checkpoint 13km – 27km: Bridle Creek Road –
right – turn left at course markers – follow service road – left – join back
onto Bridle Creek Road – gate – gate – Clohesy River Road Checkpoint27km – 42.2km: Checkpoint...
Marathon 1:
Terrain: Bitumen, dirt roads, single tracks0km – 5.5km: Outside the Kuranda Information Visitor Centre on
Coondoo Street in “The Village in the Rainforest” Kuranda – over the bridge at the
railway station – turn right – along the “Jungle Track” – turn left into Barron
Falls Road (bitumen) – Wright’s Lookout. 5.5km – 23km: McDonalds track (4.7km)
– right onto Douglas track (2.45km) – left onto Gandal Wandun track (1.5km) – left
onto Smiths Track...
Mt Haig Trail Marathon
The third of four races in the FNQ Trail Running series this race
race follows a fairly well constructed forestry road that meanders to
create probably the best rainforest circuit in the north, according to
Paul Curtis’ book “The Travellers’ Guide to North Queensland Cairns and
Surrounds”.
The race starts at Kauri Creek Day Use area (not as shown on map!) and follow Danbulla Forest Drive for approximately 3.5km
before...
Cairns to Kuranda Train Race (10 June 2012)
Cairns to Kuranda, Queensland, Australia
Trail running | 10.8 miles
Trail running | 10.8 miles
The race is approximately
18km from Freshwater Rail Station, Freshwater, Cairns to Kuranda Rail Station. 50% road run; 50%
trail run – so a bit of everything.At NO stage will runners be running on the rail tracks! Never run on rail tracks - it's dangerous for your health and wellbeing.
The race is open
to 3-person relay teams as well as individuals.
Stage one (5km
road run)
Freshwater Station
– Lower Freshwater Road
– under the Kamerunga
Bridge on the grass...
It’s Extreme Kuranda to Port Douglas Ultra Trail Marathon
Kuranda, Queensland, Australia
Trail running | 40 miles
Trail running | 40 miles
The fourth and final race in the FNQ Trail Running series. This
Point-to-Point race starts just off Kennedy Highway in Kuranda and
follows Black Mountain Road that runs through native rainforest, open
eucalypt forest, pine plantations and crosses picturesque creeks. It is
a scenic course incorporated in the Mowbray National Park within
the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area. The pyramid-shaped Black Mountain
is a prominent feature of the race. The tropical rainforest is home to
the endangered southern cassowary, a...
The second of four races in the FNQ Trail Running series, this race
is named after what is probably the most common snake seen in the
rainforest. The Red-bellied Black Snake is often just called the Black
Snake by Far North Queenslanders, who spot it frequently laying on
trails basking in the sun. It’s not aggressive, and while its bite is
considered dangerous, it is unlikely to result in death!From picturesque Copperlode Dam this trail run starts...
