Mossman Gorge Discovery Play

Mossman, Queensland, Australia

Mossman Gorge in the Daintree National Park is a major attraction in Far North Queensland. Access to the gorge with it’s walking trails, suspension bridge and popular swimming holes is is controlled through the indigenous run Mossman Gorge Visitor Centre and its shuttle bus service. Families and children groups are a large proportion of visitors and to enhance the family and education experience QPWS & P are proposing to build an interpretative playground at the bus drop off & pick up point. LA3 developed two concepts for a Discovery Play based on endemic flora. One scheme featured a Orb Spider web climbing structure and a Boyd’s Forest Dragon at a larger than life scale while the second option has a discovery dig of the prehistoric Wallaby Protemnodon skeleton and a Scrub Hen’s nest at actual life size. Bus and ranger parking is proposed to be rationalised along the provision of a new shelter structure and a small informal amphitheatre for guide talks. In association with this LA3 has documented new Class 2 surfaces for the walking trails that commence at this point including new riverside lookouts to assist manage
more than a 1/3 million visitors yearly to the gorge.