Henry Ross Lookout

Plan to pull off here for 10 minutes . Put it in your journey. It makes a nice break on the twisty road. Concise history, geography and ecology info.

Breath taking view, photos don't do it justice. MUST SEE.

Nice little lookout! Great place to get a great view for sunrise.

Great view, a must do for anyone visiting Cairns. It's free and it has a bin. I was upset to see rubbish around the area however I was informed of a recent landslide that took the bin. So I can't fault them for the enormous task of cleaning after a cyclone. Very happy to see this

Can be awkward to turn around due to the change in intersection design. View over cairns and the northern beaches is very nice though.

Great place to stop on the way to Kuranda to view Cairns and the coast. It can be a little tricky turning in going up the mountain as it is on the right hand side of the road, so take care and make sure you take the first entrance. Same when exiting, take care. Definitely a great view.

A beautiful view of Cairns as you drive up to Kuranda or the tablelands. Gorgeous when the lighting is dramatic, dawn, dusk or as a storm rolls in. There's an awning and a couple of bench seats, enough parking for about 10 cars. About 100m to the south is the entry to a very intense mountain bike downhill trail for experienced riders. On a humid night, turn your back to the lookout and look for fireflies in the jungle canopy.

Lovely lookout with a pretty ingenious way of presenting the local landscape: explanatory signs with peepholes pointing you into the right direction!

Beautiful views from Henry Ross Lookout on our return from Kuranda on Saturday 25/03/23. Defiantly worth a short stop for some happy snaps & scenic views.

Definitely a top spot to look down to the tropical paradise that is Cairns. Look over the Northern edge of Cairns City to glimpses of Trinity Beach and Yorkeys Knob. Across rainforest, over Smithfield, canefields, jumbo jets of eager tourists flying in to exotic sandy beaches opening on to the pleasure of cruisers enjoying the Great Barrier Reef.Unfortunately it is the major attraction the lush rainforest trees themselves that lets you down. Basically you cannot see a lot of the view for the trees. Parking is very limited and re-entering traffic is really running the gauntlet, quite risky. Renewal and reinvention and a good re-think of this unique, gorgeous but increasingly inaccessible site should be demanded by the people of Cairns who hold Henry Ross Lookout in a special place in their hearts.