[4] Gregory Downs is a pastoral station which breeds cattle on 266,425 hectares (658,350 acres) of native grazing land.

It carries approximately 30,000 Brahman cattle, a breed suitable for the Gulf Country.

They liked the clear running water in the Gregory River and settled at a crossing point of the river with their cattle on the western bank and their homestead on the eastern bank.

In the late 1800s they built the Gregory Downs Hotel and Store near the homestead (18°38′59″N 139°15′12″E / 18.6497°N 139.2533°E / 18.6497; 139.2533 (Gregory Downs Hotel)), but eventually decided that they found the travellers too much of a nuisance and so they relocated their homestead onto the western bank of the river (18°38′30″S 139°15′06″E / 18.6417°S 139.2517°E / -18.6417; 139.2517 (Gregory Downs homestead)).

[12] The Gregory branch of the Queensland Country Women's Association meets at various locations in the district.