Dorrigo rainforest ranger-guided tour Dorrigo National Park

This tour is an essential introduction to understanding the significance of Dorrigo National Park as a World Heritage-listed protected area.

Walk alongside an NPWS ranger, as we traverse this Heritage-listed Gondwana rainforest. We'll delve into this incredible world of ancient living fossils. Hear stories of how unique plants and animals of this World Heritage rainforest have survived and thrived. It's been millions of years in the making and is a place where time itself is captured.

Your tour will commence at the entrance of Dorrigo Rainforest Centre where a wall mosaic tells the story of how this vast continent of Gondwana broke up over millions of years. You’ll learn about the raft of plants and animals that followed, whose ancestors survive today in Dorrigo National Park.

From here your guide will lead you from the edge of the escarpment, down a steep ramp to the rainforest floor. The path winds through the low canopy before coming to the Balaminda platform. Here, you’ll be invited to take time to stop, breathe and listen. This hotspot of biodiversity gives us a glimpse into the past and a portal to the future.