Bring your own drinking water, rubbish bags, insect repellent and clean, untreated firewood such as mill off-cuts (often available at Dingo). The park supports diverse plant communities including heathlands, dry eucalypt forests and moist pockets of ferns, mosses and orchids. Being elevated, the tableland is often cooler and moister than nearby plains. Its isolation means plants and animals that are found nowhere else thrive here. These include the Blackdown stringybark, a macrozamia, red bottlebrush, the Blackdown "monster" (a type of underground cricket) and a Christmas beetle.

183 km west of Rockhampton. The signed turn-off (at the waypoint map pin) on the Capricorn Highway is 11 km west of Dingo or 110 km east of Emerald (35 km east of Blackwater).