Purling Brook Falls

Purling Brook Falls

Gold Coast


Just off Springbrook Rd, the feathery Purling Brook Falls drops a rather astonishing 106m into the rainforest: worth braving the vertigo-inducing lookout.

From here you can walk the Purling Brook Falls Circuit.


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