ACCOMMODATION CARDWELL QLD

Cardwell Van Park is located away from the highway and offers quiet, peaceful accommodation.

Situated on the coast, our beautiful family-owned park consists of clean accommodation inclusive of villas, cabins, self-contained units, roomettes, sites, campground and hostel.We offer free WiFi, and have a swimming pool onsite, along with a fish cleaning area, laundry and undercover barbecue areas.Situated on 3 acres of lush tropical gardens 800m north from the centre of town and 250m from the beach, it is the perfect holiday destination.

We are located right on the beach in the middle of town so everything is at your doorstep. Walk on the beach, enjoy fantastic fishing, wander through rainforests, eat at local restaurants, swim in crystal clear creeks and much more. The Cardwell Beachfront Motel is the perfect place to stay.

Located on the beachfront, Cardwell Beachcomber Motel and Tourist Park is in the heart of the Great Green Way (highway A1), a leisurely two hour drive from Townsville or Cairns. Cardwell is a seaside town surrounded by world heritage listed areas, offering a diverse and stunning range of natural attractions. The Hinchinbrook Channel, nearby islands and coral reefs offer great boating, fishing and crabbing. The newly refurbished beachfront motel rooms all offer spectacular views over the Hinchinbrook Passage to Hinchinbrook, Goold and Dunk Islands. They offer Standard and Executive rooms providing accommodation for up to four guests. Executive rooms offer King size beds and microwaves, and all rooms offer free movies with Foxtel. The Tourist Park covers six tropical acres and offers shady powered and unpowered sites and self contained cabin style accommodation. Their new Ocean View Villas offer the ultimate in family accommodation, with two bedrooms, full kitchen,upstairs mezzanine level and large outdoor deck facing the ocean. We also offer budget accommodation with shared kitchen facilities, ideal for backpackers and workers. FREE Wi Fi now available. The Cardwell Beachcomber Motel and Tourist Park has a licensed beachfront bar and restaurant offering fresh local seafood, great steaks and homemade pizza.

Hinchinbrook is one of Australia's most impressive and rugged continental islands. Hinchinbrook Channel, which separates the island from the mainland, is renowned for its variety of mangroves and dugong populations. The island's cloud-covered mountains support fragile heaths, and rainforest and eucalypt forests descend to a mangrove-lined channel in the west with bays, beaches and rocky headlands along the east coast. The island lies within the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area and its surrounding marine park waters, fringing reefs and seagrass beds are home to some vulnerable species, including dugong and green turtles. This island park offers isolation and wilderness. Take a short walk from Macushla to Cape Richards, North Shepherd or South Shepherd bays. Enjoy bird watching and experience vibrant wildflower displays in spring. Trek along the remote east coast Thorsborne Trail for four to seven days or explore the island's coastline by sea kayak, bush camping along the way. Book early to avoid disappointment....

Cardwell lies in the heart of the Great Green Way driving route, and is the gateway to Hinchinbrook Island - the largest Island National Park in Australia. Made up of a diverse range of landscapes, Cardwell is the perfect place to relax or be adventurous. Settled in 1864, Cardwell was the first settlement north of Bowen and is the only town in the world where two world heritage listed areas adjoin. The first being the wet tropics world heritage area, starting north of Townsville and finishing south of Cooktown. And the second - the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park world heritage area. Cardwell offers a range of attractions, site seeing, annual events and historical places to visit. The Cardwell Rainforest and Reef Visitor Information Centre has a magnificent interpretative display capturing all the flora and fauna native to the area. Staff at the Centre provide expert advice on points of interest, along with information on the region's history. Cardwell also offers a wide range of accommodation. Cardwell's Port Hinchinbrook provides a Marina, public boat ramp and repairs and maintenance facilities for anglers and boaties. It is widely acknowledged that Cardwell is ranked second to none when it comes to all-weather and all-tide boating and fishing in the north. The public boat ramp is free of charge. With 22 islands off the coast and the spectacular Hinchinbrook channel offering 45 kilometres of fully protected boating and fishing- it's a boaties paradise. Cardwell lies about an hour's drive south of Mission Beach. ...

This scenic part of Girramay National Park features lowland rainforest, open eucalypt forest, paperbark woodland, sedge swamps and extensive mangrove forests as well as secluded beaches with island views. The park's swamps are flooded by wet season rains flowing from coastal ranges, and, as the flood waters subside, the swamps become a tranquil setting, the water stained with tannin from the tea-trees. This diverse wetland park is in the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area. Enjoy a relaxing stroll along the beach to the mouth of Wreck Creek (5 kilometre return). Birdwatch and have a picnic at Rockingham Bay day-use area with views of 13 offshore islands. Walk the newly-replaced boardwalk through a mangrove forest still recovering from a cyclone. Visit the Arthur Thorsborne Aboretum near the park entrance for a shady picnic and discover local rainforest plants along the short, wheelchair-accessible loop track....

Offshore from Cardwell, in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, this tall forested island features granite outcrops overlooking white sandy beaches. Dugong and sea turtles feed on seagrass beds in shallow waters surrounding the island. The area is significant to Aboriginal people and the island contains reminders of their special culture, including middens and fish traps. Relax, bush camp and picnic on the Spit (Western Beach) and enjoy superb views of nearby Hinchinbrook Island. Explore the island on walking tracks, ranging from four kilometres to 15 kilometres return, through open eucalypt woodland and rock-hopping around the beaches. Explore patches of rainforest flourishing in rocky gullies. Watch mudskippers and crabs amongst the mangroves. In summer, listen for Pied Imperial-pigeons as they feed in the rainforest then fly off in the afternoon to nest on nearby Brook Island....

The Cardwell UFO Festival highlights the extra-terrestrial activities around Cardwell. This annual event begins on Saturday morning with a monster market day filled with family fun activities and visitors from throughout the Universe. Saturday night is where the local party with the visitors as the Alien Invasion costume party. Also on Saturday is the C-Files forum this forum is the highlight of the festival for many visitors, a informative morning with guest speakers and visitors can listen to and share their personal experiences of all things unexplained. The festival sees visitors from all over Planet Earth come to visit their little seaside village - Cardwell....

Situated halfway between Townsville and Cairns, Inspiration Port Hinchinbrook is an ideal place to take a break, relax and experience the lifestyle. 26 contemporary apartments including 8 magnificent penthouses with modern European style kitchen together with furniture to match, makes Inspiration a true delight to encounter.

Local business servicing the Cassowary Coast area.

Local business servicing the Cassowary Coast area.

Cardwell Beachcomber is a beachfront motel and tourist park with a licensed restaurant overlooking Hinchinbrook Island?s tropical setting located midway between Townsville and Cairns.

Cardwell Central Backpackers and Internet Cafe is a new, modern backpacker, hostel accommodation located between Cairns to the north and Townsville to the south. It is conveniently situated close to the bus terminal, country club (golf course and lawn bowls), shops, pub, main highway and beach. Cardwell is the gateway to the northern end of the world-renowned Hinchinbrook Island (Australia's largest island National Park) and its challenging Thorsborne Trail walking track. We specialise in finding work for visiting travellers and backpackers in fruit picking on local farms.

We are a caravan park as well as accommodation for backpackers and campers.

Caravan park.

Cardwell Central Backpackers and Internet Cafe is a new, modern backpacker, hostel accommodation located between Cairns to the north and Townsville to the south. It is conveniently situated close to the bus terminal, country club (golf course and lawn bowls), shops, pub, main highway and beach. Cardwell is the gateway to the northern end of the world-renowned Hinchinbrook Island (Australia's largest island National Park) and its challenging Thorsborne Trail walking track. We specialise in finding work for visiting travellers and backpackers in fruit picking on local farms.

We are a caravan park as well as accommodation for backpackers and campers.