King River Gorge provides a spectacular view across some of the most inhospitable wilderness in the world.

The gorge's steep sides rise a total of 163 metres (500 ft), with trains travelling along an embankment about 65 metres (200 ft) above the King River. Critics in the 1890s predicted that the railway would slide into the river but failed to take into account the engineering excellence achieved.

On the riverbank below is one of the most remote picnic grounds in Australia, established around 1900 but long abandoned except for century-old rhododendrons that still bloom.

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