Girraween National Park

On the granite belt at the Queensland-New South Wales border near Stanthorpe, Girraween is a landscape of giant granite boulders, balancing rocks and wildflower heath - its name a local word for 'place of flowers'. Walking tracks climb the Pyramid, a great dome of bare granite scrambled for a summit view, and reach the balancing rock and the cascades below. In spring the heath erupts in wattle and wildflowers; in winter the high country sees frost and even snow. Clear creeks, granite pools and open forest make it one of the loveliest parks in southern Queensland, and a cool-climate surprise so far north.