Minyon Falls

Minyon Falls is a 100-metre plunge waterfall in Nightcap National Park near Whian Whian in Byron Shire, New South Wales. Set within the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area, it features a dramatic rhyolite cliff, subtropical rainforest and a deep gorge. Accessed via Minyon Falls Road, it offers a lookout and walking tracks. It is notable as one of New South Wales' tallest waterfalls and a popular day-use natural attraction.

Visitors can expect a dramatic 100-metre waterfall plunging over a sheer cliff into a forested gorge within subtropical rainforest. The main Minyon Falls lookout provides elevated views across the falls and valley. Surroundings include dense rainforest, eucalypt forest and escarpment. Visitors can explore the lookout platform, picnic area and marked walking tracks including the Minyon Falls Lookout track and the longer Minyon Loop and Boggy Creek walks to the base of the falls.

Nightcap National Park was gazetted in 1983 to protect significant subtropical rainforest and was inscribed as part of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area in 1986, preserving ancient rainforest, volcanic geology and the Minyon Falls escarpment.

The falls lie within Bundjalung Country and are culturally significant to the Widjabul Wia-bal people, for whom the rainforest landscape holds traditional cultural and spiritual values.