Sunshine Coast
Nº 49 · 26.4°S 153.0°E · Brisbane 125 km
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The weight of this region sits in Noosaville, home to most of its makers and nearly all its brewers and distillers — a working cluster of ceramics, textiles, timber and printmaking studios alongside taprooms and a whisky operation. Beyond that hub, the hinterland towns of Cooroy, Cooran, Pomona and Gilldora each hold a single distinctive producer or gallery, while Gympie carries the region's heritage weight through its museum and railway. The pattern reads as a coast built around craft and small-batch production first, with culture and history pushed slightly inland, and everything else — accommodation, coffee, walking track — present but thin, almost incidental to the main story.
Best time to visit
With breweries, distilleries and open-air studios doing much of the region's work, cooler shoulder months suit exploring Noosaville's cluster on foot without the summer humidity. The coastal walking track and hinterland galleries are more comfortable outside peak heat, while taproom and cellar-door hours generally favour weekends and midweek visits over rushed day trips.
What sets it apart
The imbalance is the story: craft studios and small-batch producers account for most listings, concentrated almost entirely in Noosaville, while culture is dispersed thinly across separate hinterland towns and everything else — a single boutique stay, one coffee roaster, one walking track — appears just once. That lopsidedness suggests a region defined less by variety than by depth in two trades, makers and brewers, working within a tight coastal radius while heritage and nature sit apart in quieter, individual towns.
Where to start
Generated from 40 verified listings · Last updated 6 July 2026
In season · September
- Humpback whale migrationWildlifeApril–November
North to calve and south again with the calves alongside, close enough to the coast to watch from the headland.
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A selection of standout places across Sunshine Coast
Rowley Drysdale
A property at Cooroy on the Sunshine Coast hinterland has grown, over three…
Food & diningWasabi Restaurant & Bar
Set on the edge of the Noosa River, this long-running modern Japanese room has…
ShopsXO Cellars
Inside Noosa Fair Shopping Centre, this bottle shop runs alongside a sister…
Places to stayRegatta Riverfront Apartments
Right on Gympie Terrace in Noosaville, across the road from the Noosa River,…
CoffeeFirst Batch Coffee Roasters
# First Batch Coffee Roasters A specialty coffee roaster operating across the…
Museums & galleriesNoosa Shire Museum
The Cooroora Historical Society founded this museum in 1985 in Pomona's former…
Wine & spirits
Amrita Park Meadery
Pinbarren, QLD
Former aircraft engineer Andy Coates makes small-batch mead from locally sourced raw honey —…
Boiling Pot Brewing Co
Noosaville, QLD
A working brewery on the Noosa River flats, Boiling Pot pours its own Golden Ale, Bat Migration…
Copperhead Restaurant Brewery
Cooroy, QLD
Tucked behind a Cooroy motel on Kauri Street, this brew pub keeps its beer entirely on-premise — no…
Diablo Co
Gilldora, QLD
Hospitality veteran Dimitris Limnatis launched Diablo Co in 2017 after spotting a gap for something…
Dingo Creek Vineyard
Traveston, QLD
A family-owned vineyard in the rolling hills of the Noosa hinterland, set on Tandur Traveston Road.…
Heads of Noosa Brewing
Noosaville, QLD
Brothers Lance and Craig took a Brisbane garage operation to a 1,700-square-metre Noosaville…
Land & Sea - Noosa Brewing Company
Noosaville, QLD
Noosa's first craft brewery offers locally-brewed beers in the heart of Noosa Heads, open…
Land & Sea Brewery
Noosaville, QLD
Noosaville brewery running on 78.74kW of rooftop solar and a water-tank irrigation system. The…
Noosa Heads Distillery
Noosaville, QLD
The Sunshine Coast's first single malt whisky comes out of a Noosaville production facility that…
Noosa Hinterland Brewing Co.
Cooran, QLD
Cooran's old Alfredson's joinery — a heritage sawmill complex with a white lightning bicycle on the…
Pomona Distilling Co
Pomona, QLD
Robin Yates spent his university years running illicit distillations in a chemistry lab. Now the…
Seabourne Distillery
Noosaville, QLD
Noosaville's Seabourne puts native botanicals to work: the Coastal Dry Gin draws on white kunzea…
Museums & galleries
Butter Factory Arts Centre Cooroy
Cooroy, QLD
Housed in a converted butter factory on Maple Street in the Noosa Hinterland, this community arts…
Gympie Regional Gallery
Gympie, QLD
Set in the 1905 School of Arts building, this regional gallery has anchored arts and culture in…
Mary Valley Heritage Railway
Gympie, QLD
Steam and coal smoke over the Mary Valley line. The Rattler runs heritage trains out of Gympie's…
Noosa Botanic Gardens
Cooroy, QLD
Noosa Botanic Gardens is a long-established botanical garden in Cooroy, QLD. The garden showcases…
Noosa Regional Gallery
Tewantin, QLD
Noosa Regional Gallery is a dynamic contemporary art space celebrating the creative life of the…
Noosa Shire Museum
Pomona, QLD
The Cooroora Historical Society founded this museum in 1985 in Pomona's former shire council…
Woodworks Museum & Forestry Centre
Gympie, QLD
Built in 1984 from rough-sawn tallowwood and spotted gum, this volunteer-run museum sits within…
Makers
CLAY
Noosa Heads, QLD
Tucked into Lanyana Arcade off Sunshine Beach Road, this Noosa Junction pottery studio runs…
Coastal Studio Ceramics
Cootharaba, QLD
Jasmine Hayes throws and hand-builds from a solar-powered studio in Cootharaba, on Kabi Kabi…
Fabric Patch
Cooroibah, QLD
Fabric Patch brings textile creativity to Lake Cooroibah Road, Queensland, operating as a welcoming…
Firebox Print Studio
Cooran, QLD
Dian Darmansjah trained at the Tamarind School of Lithography in New Mexico before co-founding this…
Fried Mudd Studio, Gallery and Workshops
Noosaville, QLD
Potter Cathy Spencer spent 38 years at the wheel before relocating her studio from Maleny to a…
Makers Mark Jewellery Studio
Noosa Heads, QLD
Jaemes has been making fine jewellery by hand for over 30 years, working out of a light-filled…
Noosa Art Gallery
Noosaville, QLD
Visual artist Luke Deacon runs this online and advisory-led gallery from Noosaville, connecting…
Pottery For The Planet
Noosaville, QLD
Second-generation potter Renton Bishopric and artist Clare Botfield began making ceramic travel…
Reed Ceramics
Noosa Heads, QLD
Pam Reed works from a home studio on the Noosa River, throwing porcelain dinnerware and decorative…
Rowley Drysdale
Cooroy, QLD
A property at Cooroy on the Sunshine Coast hinterland has grown, over three decades, into a small…
Sand Salt Sew
Noosaville, QLD
Sand Salt Sew, located in Gateway Drive, Queensland, celebrates textile and fibre as mediums of…
Say! Little Hen
Noosaville, QLD
A small studio in Noosaville open just three days a week, Say! Little Hen stocks organic and…
Places to stay
Debbie's Place
Rainbow Beach, QLD
In the seaside village of Rainbow Beach, a small independent stay two and a half hours north of…
Plantation Resort at Rainbow
Rainbow Beach, QLD
In the centre of Rainbow Beach, across the road from the shops, surf club and the water, and hard…
Regatta Riverfront Apartments
Noosaville, QLD
Right on Gympie Terrace in Noosaville, across the road from the Noosa River, these spacious…
Rosecliffe Boutique Farm Cottages
Cootharaba, QLD
Boutique farm cottages set across a private 93-acre property in the Noosa Hinterland, a short drive…
Shops
Eclectic Style
Noosaville, QLD
Twenty years in Noosaville gives Eclectic Style a credibility most homewares shops can't fake. The…
Sauers Produce & Garden Centre
Cooroy, QLD
This Cooroy branch has served the district for over two decades, stocking everything from hay,…
XO Cellars
Noosa Heads, QLD
Inside Noosa Fair Shopping Centre, this bottle shop runs alongside a sister store at Sunshine Beach…
Food & dining
Atelier Wine Bar
Noosa Heads, QLD
A Sunshine Beach Road wine bar in Noosa Heads pouring from late afternoon through the back half of…
Barambah Creek Beef
Gympie, QLD
A family running cattle for more than fifteen years on their Barambah Creek property, producing…
Baupal Park Farm
Chatsworth, QLD
An organic macadamia farm north of Gympie where the nuts are grown by permaculture principles and…
Bunya Grove Produce
Amamoor, QLD
A biodynamic farm near Gympie raising pastured meat and eggs and making its own smallgoods, honey…
Cooroy Harvest Fresh & Cafe
Cooroy, QLD
An owner-run providore and cafe on Cooroy's main street, stacking handpicked fruit and vegetables…
Eastwell Farms
Kin Kin, QLD
A family-run regenerative farm across nine hundred acres of the Noosa hinterland at Kin Kin,…
Embassy XO
Sunshine Beach, QLD
A modern-Asian kitchen at Sunshine Beach fusing Chinese technique with Southeast Asian flavour, its…
Essential Grain Bakery
Noosaville, QLD
A family bakery on the Sunshine Coast that has been baking genuine artisan sourdough, rye and spelt…
FermenStation
Noosaville, QLD
A Japanese couple slow-crafting organic miso, koji and other fermented foods by hand, working to…
Kandanga Farm Store
Kandanga, QLD
A Mary Valley farm-to-fork store run by growers who work certified-organic cattle country in the…
Lindols Macadamias
Goomboorian, QLD
A family macadamia farm in the Gympie hinterland, more than 11,000 trees deep, turning its own…
Noosa Gelato House
Tewantin, QLD
Down at Noosa Marina in Tewantin, the Noosa Gelato House makes its gelato fresh in-house every day,…
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Tours & walks
Based in Sunshine Coast
Camel Company Australia
Camel treks along Noosa's undeveloped north shore run from a beach base reached only by…
Departs NoosavilleDrop Bear Adventures
Runs guided three-day 4WD adventures across K'gari (Fraser Island), departing Noosa and…
Departs Noosa HeadsEpic Ocean Adventures
Running eco-adventure tours since 2011 across Noosa and Rainbow Beach, the crew leads…
Departs Boreen PointEverglades Eco Safaris
Guided eco-tours of the Noosa Everglades, run from the Habitat Noosa ecocamp at Boreen…
Departs NoosaKanu Kapers Australia
These are guided, no-motor paddling tours through the Noosa River, the lakes and the…
Departs Rainbow BeachKeely Rose Fishing Charters
A full-day deep-sea fishing charter aboard Keely Rose, a 32-foot centre-cabin plate…
Departs Rainbow BeachPippies K'gari Adventures
A family-owned outfit running 3-day, 2-night 4WD tag-along tours onto K'gari (Fraser…
Departs EurongSunset Safaris
A guided adventure operator working the sand islands off south-east Queensland, best…
Departs Rainbow BeachSurf & Sand Safaris
Small-group 4WD tours from Rainbow Beach into the Cooloola section of the Great Sandy…
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