The park protects an important wildlife corridor in which rainforest and open eucalypt forest predominate.

Kuranda National Park provides habitat for the southern cassowary, the rare Lumholtz's tree-kangaroo and the Victoria's riflebird.

[1] The park covers 27,100 hectares (67,000 acres) of mountainous tropical forest north west of Cairns.

This includes parts of Cairns Region and the Mareeba Shire local government areas.

Access to the park is provided by Black Mountain Road which leaves the Kennedy Highway near Kuranda.