Climbing Mt Coolum, Sunshine Coast

We had a great morning climbing the mountain and chilling at the top, taking pictures and relaxing. The climb is a moderately rough 800m trail on the eastern side of the mountain that leads from a carpark to the summit and would test you a bit but there are people practically running up. Best time to climb would be early morning, before the lunchtime crowd. Take a water bottle, hat, sturdy shoes and a camera. A great place for pictures. Keep the area clean and take your rubbish with you.

Give yourself about 2 hours for the climb and exploring at the top.

"Dome-shaped Mount Coolum rises 208m above the sugar cane fields and coastal resorts to dominate the skyline in the Sunshine Coast lowlands. Mount Coolum National Park contains most of the mountain with its craggy cliffs. After rain, waterfalls cascade over the sides. Open eucalypt forest skirts Mount Coolum’s lower slopes while grasslands and montane heath grow towards the summit. This is one of only two coastal places where montane heath grows. The park extends south and west of Mount Coolum protecting coastal wallum, paperbark wetlands and rainforest remnants which have largely disappeared from this part of the Sunshine Coast lowlands."
Department Of Environment and Resource Management Queensland- Mount Coolum National Park