Lakefield National Park

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Lakefield is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 1,707 km northwest of Brisbane and 340km north-west of Cairns by road, on Cape York Peninsula. At 5,370 sq. km (2,073 sq. miles) making it bigger than Trinidad and Tobago and almost as big as Brunei) Lakefield is the second largest park in Queensland and a favourite place for fishing and camping. The park stretches from Princess Charlotte Bay in the north to the town of Laura. It covers 537,000 ha of land, and includes sections of the Normanby River, Morehead River and North Kennedy Rivers.Lakefield was gazetted in 1979. There is a ranger station within the park which can assist with information or give help in emergencies. There is one main, unsealed road through the Park but it is impassable through much of the wet season (roughly from early December to April/May).