The Stuart River rises in the Stuart Range, part of the Great Dividing Range, below Mount Kiangarow in the Bunya Mountains and within the Bunya Mountains National Park.

The river flows generally north by east through the town of Kingaroy before flowing north by west, and west of the town of Proston.

The Stuart River is joined by one minor tributary.

[1] The Stuart River was named by James Charles Burnett, after Henry Stuart Russell, a pastoralist, explorer and historian, who explored the area in November 1842.

[2] Media related to Stuart River (Queensland) at Wikimedia Commons