Top Attractions in KATHERINE

• Katherine Railway Station - Katherine Railway Station. Today the railway station, the only one on the line built out of concrete, is run by the National Trust. It is open Monday to Friday 11.00-1.00.
  
  
• Katherine Museum - The Katherine Museum which is located 3 km out of town on the Katherine Gorge Road is definitely worth a visit. It is well organised with a good range of interesting displays including a room on the Overland Telegraph Line, another on the Chinese in the Territory, detailed history of the changes of the town from the first settlement at Knots Crossing to the building of 'The Katherine', to the modern settlement. They also publish and sell an interesting range of publications on aspects of local history including a booklet on the origin of the town's street names and a fascinating account of Russian Peanut Farming at Katherine 1929-1960. In the annals of local history can there ever have been a more exotic topic.
  
  
• Springvale Homestead - Springvale Homestead, the oldest station homestead in the Territory, still stands. It was built to last. It is within the Springvale Homestead Tourist Park and can be visited and inspected.
  
  
• Katherine Gorge National Park - The most important tourist attraction in the Katherine area is the 180 352 hectare Katherine Gorge National Park located 32 km north east of Katherine. The Gorge actually comprises 13 separate gorges each of which is separated by rocky areas during the dry season. The Park offers swimming, bushwalking and boating as its main activities.
  
  
• Cutta Cutta Cave Nature Park - 27 km to the south of Katherine is the 1499 hectare Cutta Cutta Cave Nature Park. The whole area around Katherine is characterised by limestone formations with thermal springs (at Mataranka and Douglas Hot Springs) bubbling to the surface and large numbers of caves. During World War II when airstrips were being built in the area there were problems with collapses into caves and even today there are people in Katherine who have a hole in their backyard which is presumably the entrance to an underground cave system. Cutta Cutta Cave is the only cave open to the public in the park.
  
  

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