Download coordinates as: Paluma is a town in the City of Townsville and a locality split between the City of Townsville and the Charters Towers Region in Queensland, Australia.

[1] It is in the Mount Spec Ranges and is the southernmost point of Townsville's heritage-listed Wet Tropics.

The residential land use is mostly within the town.The remaining 2,286.2 square kilometres (882.7 sq mi) to the west in the Charters Towers Region has a mix of uses including grazing on native vegetation, the Paluma Range National Park, the Paluma State Forest, and the Mount Zero Taravale Private Nature Reserve (operated by the Australian Wildlife Conservancy).

[citation needed] Running River Provisional School opened in 1946 but closed on 31 December 1949.

[1] The Mount Spec Road and Little Crystal Creek Bridge is a heritage-listed road with stone-faced arch bridge in the Mount Spec Ranges built in 1933.

[33][34] The school provides students from years 1 to 12 the opportunity to engage with the natural environment with one of the classrooms built underneath the canopy of the forest.