Adels Grove

Adels Grove is a remote camping and accommodation park on Lawn Hill Creek in Lawn Hill, Burke Shire, Queensland, serving as the main visitor base for Boodjamulla (Lawn Hill) National Park. Set among palms and tropical vegetation planted in the 1920s, it offers powered and unpowered sites and cabins beside the creek. It is notable as an oasis in arid savannah and as the gateway to Lawn Hill Gorge, Riversleigh World Heritage Area and surrounding gorges.

Visitors can expect a shady oasis on Lawn Hill Creek surrounded by palms, tropical plants and arid savannah. The site provides camping grounds, cabins and safari tents, a bar and communal areas, and direct access to Lawn Hill Creek for swimming and canoeing. It is the primary base for exploring Boodjamulla (Lawn Hill) National Park, with walking tracks, gorge lookouts and canoe hire nearby. Facilities are remote and seasonal, with limited supplies and services.

Adels Grove was established in the 1920s by French botanist Albert de Lestang who created a botanical garden and experimental orchard on Lawn Hill Creek, planting tropical and exotic species including palms, mangoes and other trees in the arid landscape. The plantings created the oasis that remains today. The property later developed as a tourist camping park serving visitors to Lawn Hill Gorge and the Riversleigh area.

Adels Grove lies adjacent to Boodjamulla (Lawn Hill) National Park, a landscape of cultural significance to the Waanyi people, the traditional owners of the area. The park and gorge are known as Boodjamulla and feature in local cultural heritage. The oasis and creek environment reflects early 20th-century botanical experimentation in remote Queensland.