Gold Coast to Cairns · four days
4 days · 3 nights out · 1,942 km · 23 h riding · longest day 624 km
1,942 km
Total
23 h
Driving time
6
Twisty
Day by day
Day 1
Gold Coast → Seventeen Seventy
624 km
7h 33m
1 lookout
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Caboolture Past Brisbane on the motorway. Fuel before the long Bruce Highway run.
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Gympie
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Childers Heritage main street and fruit stalls. Good place to stretch.
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Bundaberg
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Miriam Vale Turn-off for Agnes Water and Seventeen Seventy, about 90 km of sealed road.
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Agnes Water Last fuel before Seventeen Seventy.
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Seventeen Seventy Night 1. Where Cook first landed in Queensland.
Day 2
Seventeen Seventy → Mackay
570 km
6h 31m
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Miriam Vale
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Rockhampton Crosses the Tropic of Capricorn on the way in.
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Marlborough
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Sarina
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Mackay Night 2.
Day 3
Mackay → Townsville
398 km
4h 43m
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Proserpine Turn-off for Airlie Beach if you want to come back for the Whitsundays.
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Bowen The Big Mango, and a good lunch stop.
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Home Hill
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Townsville Night 3. Castle Hill lookout is worth the short ride up for the view.
Day 4
Townsville → Cairns
350 km
4h 12m
1 lookout
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Ingham
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Cardwell Coffee and a look across to Hinchinbrook Island.
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Tully
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Babinda The bends start here through the cane and rainforest into Cairns.
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Cairns
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