Download coordinates as: River Ranch is a rural locality in the Gladstone Region, Queensland, Australia.

When the weather was bad, the causeway could not be used, necessitating a 20-mile (32 km) deviation to avoid it.

[5] The bridge carried the Bruce Highway until it was rerouted further north and crosses the river at Burua.

As a new bridge was being constructed for the Bruce Highway to cross the Calliope River, the diversion of the highway to the new bridge created a parcel of land that the shire proposed to use as a historical village.

Following site works, the village commenced operation in 1983 with the arrival of the first building, the Ambrose railway station.