Bookable
An Apollonaut travel guide
The forest behind the walk.
An old volcanic plateau, a logged and regrown forest and a family’s long project offer several ways into the story of the Skywalk.
On this page
A volcanic plateau
Tamborine Mountain is a plateau of about 8 by 4 km in the Scenic Rim, formed from lava that flowed from an eruption at Mount Warning about 22 million years ago. Its name comes from the Yugambeh language of the Wanggeriburra people.
Witches Falls National Park, now part of Tamborine National Park, was declared on the mountain in 1908, the first national park in Queensland.
A forest that was logged
In the early 1900s loggers worked the Skywalk’s rainforest for red cedar, rose gum and crow’s ash, and their timber-cart trails can still be traced. The forest beside Cedar Creek has since grown back.
The family who own it found a large glow-worm colony by the creek in 1998, and ran night tours there before planning the Skywalk.
Bridges among the trees
The Skywalk opened in 2009 after nearly five years of planning and approvals. Its steel bridges were lifted in by crane, and the family says not one forest tree was cut down to install them.
This history belongs to the place and the people who shaped it. The History page offers a longer introduction, and the timeline gives a short route through selected milestones.
Read at the source
Sources & further reading
Links lead to the original publishers.
