Almaden

Almaden is a tiny township just south of Cape York peninsula.

It is just east of Chillagoe, in the Cairns Outback along the Burke Developmental Road that goes to Karumba and Normanton.

You can also get to it via a few shortcuts from Kennedy Highway that runs from Smithfield north of Cairns to Undara Lava Tubes not far from Mount Garnet.

Town entrance. ©cape-york-australia.com

There is a historical Railway Hotel in town (the town's only pub), ...

Almaden Pub - the Railway Hotel. ©cape-york-australia.com

... and the railway station where Savannahlander train stops on its way from Cairns to Forsayth.

Railway station. ©cape-york-australia.com

It is in the middle of some beautiful red-soil country...

Railway. ©cape-york-australia.com

... with millions of termite mounds.

Railway. ©cape-york-australia.com

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