At the Creek Visitor Information Centre
34 Burke Street, Julia Creek, QLD
Located on the main street, ‘At the Creek’ Visitors Information Centre offers a great selection of travel information brochures, maps and a range of souvenirs that can only be found in Julia Creek.
The friendly local staff are dedicated to helping you experience and enjoy all that Julia Creek, McKinlay Shire and Outback Queensland has to offer. This tourist attraction engages in many audio and visual displays that focus on the themes of water, country and people.
The Information office is now located in the original gaol cell of Julia Creek. With two of the railway fettler cottages providing an authentic snapshot of Outback living in the McKinlay Shire.
Visitors are also able to view the endangered Dunnarts being fed daily and immerse themselves in a virtual reality mustering experience.
- Offer a range of contact methods for receiving complaints
- Train your staff in disability awareness
- Caters for people with sufficient mobility to climb a few steps but who would benefit from fixtures to aid balance. (This includes people using walking frames and mobility aids)
- Use floors/coverings which are slip resistant, firm and smooth
- Use non-slip tiles in the bathroom or slip resistant matting
- Have grab rails in the bathroom
- Provide seating in common areas including reception area
- Caters for people who use a wheelchair.
- Have step free outdoor pathways (includes picnic areas, barbecues and shelters)
- Have a step free main entrance to the building and/or reception area (includes ramps or slopes with a maximum gradient of 1:14, otherwise are too steep for wheelchairs)
- Have doorways which are easy to open and have lever handles (doorways 850mm or wider when open and not heavy)
- Have an accessible public toilet which is unlocked
- Have a wheelchair accessible toilet / shower and change room
- Have wheelchair accessible picnic tables (picnic tables require 720mm knee clearance and 800mm maximum height)
- Provide portable hoist
- Have at least one wheelchair accessible parking space with wheelchair accessible signage clearly displayed (International standards are 3200mm wide x 2500 mm high)