The Milkwood Lodge in Cooktown, Queensland, Australia is your home in the tropics overlooking a rainforest canopy surrounded by giant milkwood trees. Six comfortable and secluded pole cabins split level come furnished with fully equipped kitchenette and en-suite bathroom, and they include large private verandahs overlooking spectacular bushland and rain forest, tropical fans or air conditioning and colour TV for an unforgettable stay in beautiful surrounds. The Milkwood Lodge also has a saltwater swimming pool with waterfall for refreshing dips and lazy days, and there's a BBQ area and tranquil tropical gardens with fascinating birdlife. Services include a tour desk and breakfast packs, a laundry service, courtesy airport pick up and car hire, come enjoy a wonderfully relaxed stay.READ MORE

Your Trails Tours in Cooktown, Queensland, Australia offers personalised 4x4 tours for small groups with an experienced host, and they will take you off the beaten track for a wonderful experience of tropical north Queensland. They offer day trips and extended tours, and you can experience the world heritage rainforest and sandy beaches, Aboriginal spirituality and culture, get up close with spectacular native wildlife. Also discover the art scene and meet the artists, enjoy farms visits and gourmet adventures and so much more. Your Trails Tours assist with accommodation and special meals, organise activities including visits to the Great Barrier Reef, outback or tropical rainforest, and are happy to design personalised trips around your special interests.READ MORE

Alkoomie Station is a cattle station and luxury mountain retreat just 30 minutes from the town of Cooktown, Queensland, Australia and offers a real Aussie experience. The road to the homestead is 4WD only and you can bring yours, or staff will fetch you in Cooktown, and once here there are breathtaking views that never end across the Endeavour River valley right to the ocean. Alkoomie Station offers accommodation in the two storey homestead for 8-12 guests or you can camp out in the furnished, self contained, all weather tents. Come work alongside the cattle dogs and assist the the cattle round up, learn and watch as you go, it's a fascinating experience, they also have horse riding, a 4-hole golf course, bush walks, barbecue dinners at the campfire and so much more, come stay in paradise, or as they call it, heaven on earth.READ MORE

The Cooktown History Centre in Cooktown, Queensland, Australia welcomes you to visit them for everything about the history of the area and is run by the Cooktown and District Historical Society. Housed in a historical building in Charlotte Street circa 1875, it was then the town's first post and telegraph office, and now has photos, interactive displays, murals and oral histories for a fascinating insight into the past. The Cooktown History Centre brings you Cooktown through the years with an exhibition bringing to life the historical railway, early roads, cyclones and other disasters, the people of the time including early families and indigenous people, a visit is a must.READ MORE

The Lions Den Hotel outside Cooktown, Queensland, Australia is set on seven tropical acres and was built in 1875 on the banks of the Little Annan River. Come for the best camping in Cooktown with powered and unpowered sites on spacious, grassed tropical sites ideal for caravans, buses and camper trailers, they also have safari lodges for true tree house adventures in African inspired safari tents, and the Dongas are comfortable, air conditioned and equipped with fridge, bedding and more. The Lions Den Hotel also offers delicious home cooked meals, seven days a week and an everyday pizza menu, great breakfasts and more enjoyed on the deck and icy beers in the iconic pub. There's a children's playground, natural swimming holes, gorges, helicopter joy rides and more, and they welcome groups, stop by the on-line store for great merchandise too, and they stock essentials like fuel, gas and ice.READ MORE

The Cooktown Motel - Pams Place Hostel in Cooktown, Queensland, Australia offers a natural tropical rainforest environment with comfortable units and a quiet location to regroup, regather and revitalise, ideal for the perfect holiday. There are accommodation choices for everyone including, fully self contained motel units, cabin style rooms and hostel accommodation with communal kitchen and amenities. The Cooktown Motel - Pams Place Hostel also has a tour desk, a licensed bar, a salt water swimming pool, BBQ and camp fire area, an internet cafe, TV and pool room, library and reading room, laundry, garden recreation area and so much more, come for the perfect stay in beautiful surrounds with incredible activities nearby.READ MORE

Gone Fishing in Cooktown, Queensland, Australia offers premier guided fishing charters on the Great Barrier Reef, as well as sport fishing, game fishing, estuary, islands and sweetwater fishing, using lure, fly, live bait and pole fishing methods, for the greatest fishing adventure of your life, with half and full day charters available, as well as tailor made extended charters. They also offer Wildlife tours of the Endeavour River learning about the amazing eco system, seeing abundant birdlife, mangroves, rainforest flora, crocodiles and so much more, it's not to be missed. Gone Fishing Cooktown offer great fishing packages and sightseeing tours for memorable days of adventure, and with their professionalism and consistent results, an enjoyable time out is a guarantee.READ MORE

The James Cook Museum in Cooktown, Queensland, Australia is dedicated to the history of Cooktown and is housed in a spectacular 19th century convent building. By promoting the natural, Indigenous and cultural heritage of their state, this community organisation welcomes you to enjoy a fascinating visit learning about the history of Cooktown from James Cooks landing in 1770 to the recent past. Exhibits at the James Cook Museum include the original anchor from his ship Endeavour, Palm River gold rush items, early residents personal items and so much more. Come for a walk back in time, to the culture and national heritage of yesteryear, not to be missed.READ MORE

Peninsula Caravan Park in Cooktown, Queensland, Australia is situated in a grove of paperbark trees at the base of Mt. Cook adjacent to the National Park, and visitors here enjoy a natural beauty surrounded by paper barks and abundant wildlife. Accommodation options include grassy, powered camping sites for motorhomes and caravans and tents in the native bush or staying in a self contained timber cabin with air conditioning, fans and microwaves, they also have bunkhouses available. Peninsula Caravan Park has a swimming pool, children's play area and disabled amenities and is the closest park to the beach at Finch Bay, they also have laundry and drying facilities and are the perfect base for exploring the area and Cape York, come for an unforgettable stay.READ MORE

Cooktown Tours offer you a real Cooktown experience with great guides and a door to door service from your town accommodation. Enjoy seeing the sites from an air conditioned, comfortable coaster, and discover the beauty of this town and the lesser known secrets with your local and knowledgeable guide. They offer a tour of the Black Mountains which includes tea and lunch, and this area of shiny black boulders is shrouded in mystery, visit historic sites and the Annan River Gorge, Botanical Gardens and more. Cooktown Tours also offer a historical town tour, where you learn about Captain James Cook and his crew, the birth of Cooktown, the first white settlement in Australia, the real history and so much more.READ MORE