Blackwood National Park

Getting there and getting around

Blackwood is off the Gregory Development Road (Great Inland Way) and is 180km south of Charters Towers or 15km north of Belyando Crossing. The road inside the park is gravel but conventional vehicle access is possible.

Access is restricted in the wet season, between October and April. Check with RACQ for road conditions (see tourism information links for contact details) and the Bureau of Meteorology for updated weather reports. It is not advisable to enter the park during or after heavy rain.

Vehicles are not permitted beyond the carpark.

Wheelchair accessibility
Blackwood National Park has no wheelchair-accessible facilities.

Park features

Blackwood National Park is named after an acacia known as blackwood or black gidyea (Acacia argyrodendron). These beautiful trees can grow up to 10m high, and have a solid single trunk and dark furrowed bark. Narrow, slightly curved grey-green leaves form a distinctive crowned canopy.

The park features undulating hills intercepted by stony ridges and alluvial flats. Acacia woodlands, consisting of blackwood and lancewood trees, occur on the stony ridges along with clumps of spinifex and pockets of dry rainforest. Box eucalypts and scattered coolibah trees grow along the alluvial flats.

The park was gazetted in 1991 and was once part of Mt Hope Station. To date, 11 vegetation communities containing 137 plant species have been identified.

Camping and accommodation

Camping

Camping is not permitted in the park. The nearest camping area is the Belyando Crossing Caravan Park, which is 15km south of the park along the Gregory