Bookable
An Apollonaut travel guide
A walkway among the trees.
An introduction to Tamborine Mountain, the plateau in the Gold Coast hinterland where the Skywalk was built in 2009.
On this page
Read the mountain
Tamborine Mountain rises to about 525 metres in the Scenic Rim, roughly 35 km from Surfers Paradise and 72 km from central Brisbane. Its plateau takes in North Tamborine, Eagle Heights and Mount Tamborine.
A local guide can give context without turning a community into a backdrop. Notice how pockets of rainforest survive between farms and houses, and respect the homes and roads around them.
Built from above
The Skywalk was built on steep volcanic soil. Cranes of 120 tonnes, with 80-metre booms, set its tower columns, walkway and cantilever in place, and the visitor centre was brought in sections and assembled on site.
Begin with a detail and ask how it was made: a bridge footing, a cantilever, a rail. A photograph alone cannot tell you how a structure was planned or who built it.
A Skywalk chapter
The Skywalk shows a quieter side of the Gold Coast region: a rainforest gully an hour’s drive or so from the beaches.
Look at the meeting of the two: a structure of steel, and the forest it was built to show.
Make room for context
Pair this local reading with the Skywalk’s history and the Journal. This is an introduction for visitors, not a claim that our team manages these places or represents the people who built them.
Read at the source
Sources & further reading
- Tamborine Rainforest Skywalk: Our history
- Wikipedia: Tamborine Mountain
- Tamborine Rainforest Skywalk: Contact and find us
Links lead to the original publishers.
