Nurture your nature connection with Park of the Month

Park of the Month is a key initiative of the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS) and NPAQ’s Parks Connect program. We’re passionate about parks, and by sharing decades of knowledge from committed volunteers, conservationists and National Park Rangers with local communities and visitors, we hope Queenslanders from all walks of life will fall in love with our amazing wild places.

Starting from July 2025 …

Sign on to one or more diverse Park of the Month programs and kindle a lasting passion for Queensland’s national parks and protected areas.

Events cater to a range of ages and abilities and include:

health, wellbeing, access, and inclusion
natural history and learning outdoors
appreciating cultural heritage and First Nations knowledge
outdoors fitness and recreational activities
vital conservation and stewardship events.

JULY 2025 PARK OF THE MONTH

Glasshouse Mountains National Park

About Glasshouse Mountains National Park

For tens of thousands of years, First Nations Peoples have revered these mountains as a sacred meeting place and thrived on their surrounding rich, volcanic soils. These remarkable rocky formations are also the subject of several Dreaming and orgin beliefs.Over aeons, erosion has sculpted these distinctive silhouettes from the remnant flows of earlier volcanoes. Their fascinating formations led Lt. James Cook to name them the Glasshouse Mountains—after the shape of lime-burning kilns in his native Yorkshire—when he sailed down the coast in 1770.

Of course, these mountains that puncture the skyline of the Sunshine Coast hinterland near the small towns of Beerwah, Landsborough and Maleny aren’t just geological formations—they’re also vibrant ecosystems that teem with life. Fringing their bulk or blanketing their steep sides are montane heath, woodlands, and swampy plains that support populations of koalas, monitor lizards, dragons, rainbow bee-eaters, vulnerable black-tailed cockatoos and peregrine falcons–the world’s fastest birds. Learn more about Glasshouse Mountains National Park.