THE BEST Sights and Attractions in Gold Coast
From iconic landmarks to hidden gems — explore the best sights and attractions in Gold Coast with curated picks, local tips, and free itinerary planning tools.
🏛️ Sights and Attractions in Gold Coast
- Surfers Paradise — A notable landmark in Gold Coast, worth visiting for its historical significance, architectural character, and cultural interest.
- Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary — is a heritage-listed zoological garden at 28 Tomewin Street, Currumbin, Queensland, Australia. It was built in 1947 onwards. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 18 September 2009. The sanctuary is world-renowned for its feeding of huge
- SkyPoint Observation Deck — SkyPoint is an observation deck located 230 metres (750 ft) off the ground at the top of the Q1 on the Gold Coast, Australia. The attraction is operated by Ardent Leisure.
- Q1 Tower — Q1 (Queensland Number One) is a 322m skyscraper in Surfers Paradise, the tallest building in Australia and the Southern Hemisphere. The SkyPoint observation deck on level 77 offers 360-degree views of the Gold Coast, and the SkyPoint Climb takes visitors to the 270m spire.
- Warner Bros Movie World — Warner Bros. Movie World is a theme park on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. Owned and operated by Village Roadshow Theme Parks, the park opened on 3 June 1991. It is part of a 154-hectare (380.5-acre) entertainment precinct, with the adjacent Village Roadshow Studios and
- Burleigh Heads — A headland with a national park walk offering panoramic views of the Gold Coast skyline, Surfers Paradise, and the Pacific Ocean.
- Coolangatta — A notable sight in gold coast, worth visiting for its historical or cultural significance.
- Lamington National Park — The Lamington National Park is a national park in the McPherson Range on the Queensland/New South Wales border in Australia. From Southport on the Gold Coast the park is 85 kilometres (53 mi) to the southwest and Brisbane is 110 kilometres (68 mi) north. The 20,600 hectares Lamington National Park is known for its natural environment, rainforests, birdlife, ancient trees, waterfalls, walking tracks and mountain views. The park protects parts of the Eastern Australian temperate forests.
- Springbrook National Park — The Springbrook National Park is a protected national park in the Gold Coast hinterland of Queensland, Australia. The 6,197-hectare (15,310-acre) park is situated on the McPherson Range, near Springbrook, approximately 100 kilometres (62 mi) south of Brisbane. The park is part of the Shield Volcano Group of the UNESCO World Heritage–listed Gondwana Rainforests of Australia.
- Tamborine Mountain — Tamborine Mountain is a plateau in the Scenic Rim hinterland behind the Gold Coast, with rainforest walks, waterfalls, galleries, wineries, and the Tamborine National Park, the first national park in Queensland (1908).