The absence of soil between the boulders and rocks create a maze of gaps and passages, which can be used to penetrate inside the mountain.

[5] Kalkajaka ("Black Mountain") is a heavily significant feature of the Kuku Nyungkal people's cultural landscape.

Kalkajaka also features strongly in local, more non-Aboriginal cultural landscapes, some of which has also been described by Queensland's Department of Environment and Resource Management as follows:[5] When European colonists arrived late last century, they added to the many Aboriginal legends of the area with a few of their own.

It is estimated only three in ten would survive such falls, wandering below the Earth's surface with only ground water streams and insects to nourish them.

[3] The park's mountains are located at the northernmost end of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, where world heritage listed wet tropical forests meet drier savanna woodlands - making it a natural refuge for once more widespread, now isolated relict fauna.