This stunning park is known for its massive granite outcrops, precariously balanced boulders, clear streams and tumbling cascades. All set within 11 800 ha of eucalypt forests and other  plant life. The area provides for great diversity of plant and animal species, some of which do not occur naturally elsewhere.

Long before British colonial settlement, traditional First Nation custodians lived, hunted, gathered and prospered for countless generations in the area. Although their legends and place names have been lost, camping places, rock markings, tools and marked trees provide evidence of their life on the land.

In the 1840s Robert Mackenzie was the first squatter to legally occupy land in the Girraween area. For decades he and others attempted logging, dairying and farming sheep, cattle, fruit and vegetables. Dr Spencer Roberts (a medical practitioner in Stanthorpe) was a self-professed guardian of local populations of the superb lyrebird and the common wombat. He put many submissions to government to create a national park to protect the habitat of these animals.

Bald Rock Creek National Park was declared in 1930 with Castle Rock National Park declared in 1932. Totalling 1600 ha, they were known collectively as Wyberba National Park. Between 1966 and 1980, various lands were added to take Girraween National Park to its present 11,800 ha.

The park name was adopted in 1966. It lies 26km south of Stanthorpe or 30km north of Tenterfield.