Natal Downs
Natal Downs Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in Queensland.
The property is situated approximately south of Charters Towers and west of Collinsville. It adjoins Longton and Narellan Stations along the Cape River.
The property occupies an area of and has a carrying capacity of about 12,000 head of cattle. The land is composed of open black soil plains covered with Mitchell and buffel grass, open forest and flooded coolabah flats that have been divided into 29 paddocks.
Established in 1961 by a partnership between Kellet and Spry it was originally run as a sheep station.
In 2008 the aggregation of Natal downs, Longton and Narellan were placed on the market by the Camm group. Collectively the properties occupy nearly one million acres and carry a herd of 33,000 head of cattle.
