El Questro Wilderness Park is a wilderness park onEl Questro Station, a cattle station that diversified its pastoral operation to include tourism, located in theKimberley region ofWestern Australia. It remains a working cattle station with a herd of approximately 6,000 head. In 2012 the pastoral station lessee wasGPT. El Questro station operates under Crown Lease number CL207-1984 and has Land Act number LA3114/1180.[1][2]
The park is located 110 km (68 mi) west ofKununurra and is accessed from theGibb River Road and encompasses an area of over 4,047 km2 (1,000,000 acres) that extends some 80 km (50 mi) into the heart of the Kimberley.[3]
The station was first established in 1903. Will and Celia Burrell bought thecattle station in 1991 and developed it into a wilderness park tourist destination.[4] The Burrells sold El Questro toGPT in 2005. GPT onsold the wilderness park toDelaware North in March 2010.[5][6]
There are three resorts on El Questro: Emma Gorge (offering safari cabins),[7] The Station (bungalows and camping)[8] and The Homestead (luxury rooms and suites)[9] – all operated byG'Day Group
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