[4] A discontiguous section of the Wooroonooran National Park is in the eastern end of the locality.

The land use is a mixture of crop growing (including sugarcane), grazing on native vegetation, and rural residential housing around the rivers.

[5] There is a cane tramway through the locality to deliver the harvested sugarcane to the Mulgrave Sugar Mill.

[8][9] In October 1924, Carl Ross had the first public telephone in Little Mulgrave installed in his residence.

[10] In March 1926, Carl and his wife Frances Isabel Roos established the Mountain View Hotel.