Burleigh Heads
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Burleigh Heads National Park
Right in the heart of the busy Gold Coast, Burleigh Heads National Park provides a peaceful haven for wildlife and walkers.
This small 27.6-hectare national park is actually an isolated extension of a huge volcano which was centred at Mount Warning 22 million years ago. Despite the development that has gone on around it, the park has managed to preserve a small portion of coastal rainforest and heathlands, incorporating such flora as mangroves, eucalypts, and pandanus and faunal species such as reptiles, wallabies, bandicoot, koalas, bush turkeys and other birds, though some of these species are nocturnal and elusive.
There is a short, well-maintained, 2.8-km ocean-view circuit which offers superb views of the coast from Turngum Lookout, as well as a 1.2-km rainforest circuit.
It is easily accessible from Surfers Paradise - even connected via footpath from Miami making a great run and dip in the sea.
David Fleay Wildlife Conservation Park
A run can be extended to include the David Fleay wildlife conservation park - another rainforest route of 1.2 km duration only about 2km away. You cross Tallebudgera Creek and go through a short residential area, maybe an out and back route as dran here, making 8km in total.
