Emu Mountain Summit Walk, Noosa: Length, parking & attractions
The Emu Mountain Summit Walk near Noosa offers wildflowers and whale-watching. The car park is just to the south of Peregian Beach.
What is the Emu Mountain Summit Walk?
The Emu Mountain Summit Walk is one of the most popular walks in the Noosa National Park, Queensland.
It’s a relatively easy-going affair, but there’s plenty to enjoy along the way.
Emu Mountain is also known as Mount Peregian (Peregian is the local Aboriginal word for emu), and it was once part of a much larger volcano. What remains is rhyolite rock.
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- Cruise the mirror-like waterways of the Noosa Everglades – a glorious glide through stunning natural landscapes.
- 4WD along the beaches – AND kayak with dolphins on a day tour full of easy adventure.
- Take a dolphin-watching safari down the Noosa River.
- Have a go at kayaking, stand-up paddleboarding or waterbiking.
- Take a tasting tour of the local craft breweries and distilleries – find out how the locals have devoted themselves to quality.
- Get standing on your board by the end of a beginners’ surfing lesson.
Where is the Emu Mountain Summit Walk?
The Emu Mountain Summit Walk is in the Emu Mountain section of Noosa National Park. The car park is 14km south of Noosa Heads, between Peregian Beach and Point Arkwright.
To get to the trailhead, drive down David Low Way, then use the car park on Havana Road near the Coolum Beach State High School.
If I can do just one thing in Noosa, what should it be?
The Great Beach Drive – a four wheel drive adventure up Teewah Beach towards Double Island Point – is fantastic on its own. To go kayaking with dolphins as part of the same trip makes for a genuinely superb day out.
Take it as a massive personal recommendation – the Great Beach Drive plus Kayaking With Dolphins day tour should be at the top of your Noosa wishlist.
How long is the Emu Mountain Summit Walk?
The Emu Mountain Summit Walk is a 1.1km return walk from the car park, and you should allow 45 minutes to an hour to complete it. It’s fairly steep and a little rocky underfoot, so is rated as a Grade 4 walk.
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- Taste coffee and ginger, do rainforest walks, and visit the best lookouts on a highlight-packed hinterland tour.
- Take a serene Noosa Everglades cruise along the mirror-like waterways – or canoe through the Everglades.
- Learn to surf at a Sunshine Coast surf school – or try paddleboarding instead.
- Combine sight-seeing and thrills on a fast boat tour.
- Go e-mountain biking on the downhill trails of Tewantin National Park.
- Kayak with dolphins as part of a beach 4WD tour.
- Explore the Sunshine Coast from above on a seaplane flight.
- Take an indigenous cultural tour – with bush tucker tasting.
- Visit the region’s best craft breweries and distilleries on a drinks tasting tour.
- Go jetskiing through the gorgeous Pumicestone Passage.
- Taste wines, cheeses and chocolates on a hinterland food tour.
- Watch migrating humpbacks on a whale-watching cruise.
What to see on Emu Mountain
Emu Mountain is a hill, rather than a mountain – it’s only 71 metres high. But you can see rare Mt Emu she-oaks and wildflowers on the way up.
Once at the summit of Emu Mountain, there’s an excellent lookout. On a clear day, you can see the Glass House Mountains to the south-west and Mount Tuchekoi to the north-west. You can also see the coast as far up as Noosa and as far south as Maroochydore.
Come between June and November, and you’ve got a decent chance of seeing migrating humpback whales along the coast, too.
For more information, visit the Parks and Forests department website.
More Noosa attractions and activities
Boiling Point Lookout | Granite Bay | Great Beach Drive tour | Hastings Street | Laguna Lookout | Little Cove | Noosa Botanic Gardens | Noosa Everglades Cruise | Noosa North Shore Ferry | Peregian Beach | Sunshine Beach | Surfing lessons.