Proserpine Travel Guide

Proserpine is a historic sugar cane township. There are a number of towns along the Queensland coast which came into existence specifically to serve the sugar industry in the region. They are, by any conventional definition, functional towns characterised by dozens of small railway tracks all leading towards the sugar crushing mills. It is an accident of their existence that in modern times they have missed out on the tourism boom which has converted so much of the Queensland coast into a tropical paradise. There are a number of attractive freshwater destinations around Proserpine including the Peter Faust Dam which is popular with water skiers and sailors. It also has picnic facilities on the shoreline. The Cedar Creek Falls, set in a natural rock amphitheatre, has a cool swimming hole.