Queen Mary Falls is but one of the features, Spring Creek flows through the park, plunging over the 40m falls before continuing its journey west to the Condamine River which in it self is the head water of the longest river in Australia, the Murray-Darling. The park includes many steep slopes and escarpments. Having been formed over hundreds of thousands of year where streams have cut gorges through horizontal layers of basalt and trachyte from the Main Range Volcano. What Lives in the park. The deep, sheltered gorge receives continual mist and spray from the falls.
Spring creek provides a home to animals such as the platypus and the red spiny crayfish.
About 100 species of birds have been found in the park, these include the shy Albert's lyrebird, the bird is rarely seen but can be identified by its extraordinary song and mimicking of other birds calls and artificial noises. In the rainforest gorge, king parrots, crimson rosellas, the superb blue wren, Australia king parrot and the rufous fantail are just a few of the colourful birds that can be found in the park. In the 1850's timber cutters used the gorge to reach Cedar growing on the side of Mt. Superbus. To this day the Condamine River has to be crossed 14 times and becomes impassible in floods. There are many tales told of valiant efforts to get ladies through the floods before their babies came.