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    • Esplanade & Lagoon
    • Edge Hill & Stratford
    • Freshwater
    • Redlynch
    • Caravonica
    • Edmonton
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  • Northern Beaches
    • Palm Cove
    • Trinity Beach
    • Kewarra Beach
    • Clifton Beach
    • Ellis Beach
    • Yorkeys Knob
    • Holloways Beach
    • Machans Beach
    • Trinity Park
    • Smithfield
    • Double Island
    • Wangetti
  • Atherton Tablelands
    • Kuranda
    • Yungaburra
    • Millaa Millaa Falls
    • Atherton
    • Mareeba
    • Malanda
    • Lake Tinaroo
    • Lake Eacham
    • Lake Barrine
    • Herberton
    • Ravenshoe
    • Mount Hypipamee
    • Chillagoe
    • Mount Molloy & Julatten
    • Tablelands Small Towns
  • Cairns South
    • Babinda & The Boulders
    • Josephine Falls
    • Goldsborough Valley
    • Gordonvale
    • Bramston Beach
    • Bellenden Ker
    • Innisfail
    • The Southern Corridor
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    • Green Island
    • Fitzroy Island
    • Frankland Islands
    • Michaelmas Cay
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    • Mossman Gorge
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    • Wonga Beach
    • Newell Beach
    • Oak Beach
    • Behind Port Douglas
  • Things to Do
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    • For Couples
    • Solo Travel
    • Over 60s
    • Great Barrier Reef Trips
    • Green Island or Fitzroy
    • Skyrail vs Kuranda Railway
    • Waterfall Road Trip
    • Walks Near Cairns
    • Cairns Wildlife
    • Cape Tribulation Drive
    • Crystal Cascades
    • Where to Swim
    • Free Things to Do
    • The Reef With Kids
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    • First Nations Experiences
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    • Rainy Day Cairns
    • Game fishing
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Cairns With Kids

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Things to do in Cairns with kids, planned the way parents actually plan: by age bracket, with the free options first and the pram fine print nobody else prints. Cairns has a serious claim as Australia’s best family destination, with a flat waterfront city, a free lifeguard-patrolled lagoon, a reef you can show a toddler through a glass bottom boat, and wildlife parks where kids meet koalas, and this category is the honest manual for all of it. Toddler-friendly mornings, primary-age adventure days, teen-proof itineraries, rainy-day rescues and reef trips matched to swimming ability, all checked against the operators’ own fine print before publishing. If we say pram-friendly, we checked the stroller policy. If we say free, it’s actually free.

Palm Cove beach looking north to Double Island, with the Cairns Tourism logo
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Port Douglas Splash Park: What Families Need to Know Before You Go

  • August 2026
Free water play at Jalunbu Park, Port Douglas. What is in the three zones, why there are no lifeguards, and the one thing Council does not publish.
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A family splash in the shallow water at Green Island with the jetty behind them.
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The Great Barrier Reef With Kids: Which Trip to Actually Book

  • July 2026
Booking a reef trip with kids is a compatibility problem, not a quality problem. Every operator out of…
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A staff member in uniform handing tickets to two visitors at the Cairns Aquarium admissions desk
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Things to Do in Cairns With Kids, by Age Bracket

  • July 2026
Update, 29 September 2026: if this trip involves Kuranda, check before you book. Skyrail is running only a…
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Double Island seen from the Palm Cove jetty
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Is Double Island reopening? What we know

  • October 2026
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Cairns This Week: 12 to 18 October 2026

  • October 2026
The view from Henry Ross Lookout on the Kuranda Range Road
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Kuranda Range night closures return from 18 October

  • October 2026
Kuranda Scenic Railway train crossing a steel trestle bridge in the Barron Gorge, with a waterfall spilling down the rock face behind it
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Kuranda Scenic Railway Cancelled Until 20 September After a Bridge Fault

  • September 2026
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