Welcome to Yorkeys Knob Official Website
Photo: Daniela Vavrova
Yorkeys Knob is just 15 minutes north of the Cairns International Airport and 20 minutes from the Cairns CBD. This delightful Cairns North Beaches community has everything to offer visitors – safe swimming beaches, restaurants, shopping centre, resort and apartment accommodation, a world class marina, 18 hole golf course and really friendly locals.
The broader area encompassing Yorkeys Knob holds deep, ongoing cultural significance for its original inhabitants. The traditional owners of the Cairns northern beaches region include the Djabugay, Yirrganydji, and Gimuy Walubara Yidinji peoples.
You will always be able to find your own piece of paradise on our large expanse of golden palm-fringed beach. The main patrolled beach offers the protection of stinger nets in the summer season (usually November to May). Swim, sail, wind-surf, snorkel or dive on the Great Barrier Reef, or visit the World Heritage Rain Forest and Cairns City. Do it all while staying in Yorkeys Knob.
There are regular city bus services, courtesy tour pick ups, and local car rentals.
Nestled in the cove of Half Moon Bay is the Yorkeys Knob Boating Club serving bistro meals in an open air setting with expansive views of the marina and the ocean from the covered deck, and a courtesy bus is available. The Half Moon Bay Marina offers 200 sheltered berths for vessels up to 30 metres.
Visitors are welcome at one of the most popular golf courses in the Tropical North located at Yorkeys Knob. The picturesque 18 hole Half Moon Bay Golf Club overlooks the Boating Club and Marina providing magnificent views across the Coral Sea.
The beachfront at Yorkeys Knob beach is also a world-class kite-surfing and foil-boarding destination (rated one of the top 10 in the world). The prevailing SE Trade Winds from April to November make Yorkeys Knob the focal point of the local and national kite-surfing and wing foiling community. Talk to the boys at Kite Rite or Pacific Watersports for more information.
Yorkeys Knob is just 10 minutes to the main shopping centre of the northern beaches, Smithfield Shopping Centre, home to Coles, Woolworths, Kmart, Event Cinemas, Dan Murphy’s, Petbarn, the Smithfield Tavern, plus over 100 specialty and service retailers and several banks.
Close by, still in Smithfield, you can find a medical centre, dentist, Urgent Care Clinic, MacDonalds, Hungry Jacks, BCF, Anaconda, Autobarn and Supercheap Auto. There is a large Bunnings hardware store. Smithfield also has an olympic size public swimming pool, Council Library, and the Marlin Coast Recreational Centre.