Running Creek Falls

To follow this track, you need the property owner’s permission to park on their land and to walk through their property. They are incredibly nice people, so please make sure you call them first. You park right near their house, so there’s no sneaking in. You will find their contact details with a Google search.

For the hike, park beside the farm homestead (don’t block the gate - this is a working cattle farm, so the farmers will need to be able drive in and out of the gate). You will walk for several kms over farmland. You will likely walk through paddocks with cattle in them. Don’t stir the cattle up - give them plenty of room.

Once you do the first proper creek crossing, wiki is of limited value. You’re in a rainforest and the track twists and turns a lot. There is pink tape marking the track from here all the way to the falls, so follow the tape. Try your best not to lose the track, it would be easy to get lost in there. When you lose the track, use wiki as a guide to help you find it again.

Twist and turn, always following the pink tape, for a good couple of hours to the falls. The last couple of hundred metres to the falls isn’t marked by tape, it’s just a free for all rock hop. The falls are absolutely spectacular and well worth the challenges of the hike in.

Follow the same track out, back to the cars. Expect this to be around an 8 to 12hr day, depending on how long you spend at the falls, how fast you hike, and how difficult the creek crossings are.

Now some tips:

There is lots of long grass for the first half of the hike leading up to the first proper creek crossing, so wear gaiters, pack a snake bite bandage and PLB, and know how to use both. We saw a brown snake in this grass, so snake bites are definitely possible on this one.

If the water levels are up, the creek crossings are challenging. If it has been raining a lot, I would wait for drier conditions before trying this one.

There is both gympie gympie and wait a while on the trail for the rainforest part of the hike. Expect to get stung by both. Long sleeves and gaiters are the best defence for these.

The falls are spectacular!