Yorkeys Knob is located 10 minutes north of the Cairns International Airport and 15 minutes from Cairns City. Yorkeys Knob is the best kept secret in Australia's Tropical North Queensland.

Yorkeys Knob Cairns Northern Beaches has everything to offer visitors - safe swimming beaches, restaurants, shopping centre, accommodation, world class marina, sporting activities, car hire and really friendly locals.

Visitors are welcome at one of the most popular golf courses in the Tropical North located at Yorkeys Knob. The picturesque Half Moon Bay Golf Club overlooks the Boating Club and Marina providing magnificent views across the Coral Sea.

You will always be able to find your own piece of paradise on the large expanse of golden palm-fringed beach. The main patrolled beach offers the protection of stinger nets in the summer season.

Swim, sail, wind-surf, snorkel or dive on the Great Barrier Reef, or visit the World Heritage Rain Forests and Cairns City - do it all while staying in YORKEYS KNOB. There are regular city bus services, courtesy tour pick ups, and local car rentals.

Getting Here

Travelling north from Cairns city, or Cairns Airport, continue across the Barron River bridge and through the Machans Beach and Holloways Beach roundabouts until you come to the clearly signposted Yorkeys Knob roundabout a few hundred metres south of Skyrail and Tjapukai.
Turn right at the roundabout and continue for about 5kms. The main access road becomes Varley Street as it enters Yorkeys Knob.