Black
Mountain Road is a small back road just south of Cape York.
It goes from Kuranda
to
Julatten,
and you could do it as a
part of your road up north (or back down south) if you
have the time and prefer doing a track instead of the highways.
(I would in that case
replace the inland way with it, not the coastal,
which is beautiful between Cairns and Port Douglas).
It is even quite famous - you do read about it, but don't expect it to be a bumpy,
adventurous four wheel drive track.
The Black Mt Road is more like a
gravel
road, but it's not all even - you do need high clearance,
but not necessarily to use the four wheel drive gears.
It goes
through some tropical
rainforests and
pine plantations,
.. crosses a few creeks with small bridges,
... and
enters, and later exits, Kuranda
National Park.
It gets a bit steeper in the
northern, Julatten
end.
There,
you
also have the Bump Track
- one
of the greatest bushwalks
in Cape York.
From Julatten you can turn left to Mount
Molloy, and continue
the inland road north.
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