Gordonvale, historically a sugar town, is today a quintessential Australian country town. It has courteous storekeepers, well-preserved streetscapes, historic buildings and a great sense of community. Near Gordonvale stands the highest free-standing mountain peak in the world (not part of a mountain range). The symmetrical Pyramid is 922 metres in height.
From Gordonvale there is access to the Tropical Tablelands via the Gillies Highway, while south the Great Green Way extends south to Mission Beach.
Gordonvale is about 30 minutes’ drive south of Cairns.
http://www.about-australia.com/gordonvale/
drove around this town one day, driving by all the sugar cane fields, it is a very lovely little town
(was a cloudy day)Ravenshoe is a very lovely small town
Ravenshoe, the highest town in Queensland at 920 metres, is a lush region of mountain pastures and un-spoiled World Heritage rainforest.
Situated five kilometres from Ravenshoe you will find windmills that are 45 metres freestanding and twenty of them together is a spectacular sight to behold and feed enough power to into the national grid to power 3,500 homes. In 1987 when World Heritage listing of the Wet Tropics occurred Ravenshoe was a timber town producing beautiful furniture timbers as well as veneers. Today, the town still has two timber mills operating using both plantation pine and hardwoods
http://www.queensland.com/en-us/destination%20information/ravenshoe
Mount Molloy is a rural town 50 km north-west of Cairns. It was named after Pat Molloy who discovered copper there, beside Rifle Creek, in 1885.
The copper was mined intermittently until the early 1900s when John Moffat of Irvinebank incorporated Mount Molloy into his mining and metals empire. Moffat built a smelter in 1904, and for a while the locality went by the names of Smelter Town or simply Molloy
http://queenslandplaces.com.au/mount-molloy
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