Some parts of the trail challenge visitors by walking along a wood-stump walkway.
The beginning of the Tina Joliffe Nature Trail is 200 meters from the entrance on the first left of the main forest road to Emerald Pool. The trail is a 2.7-kilometer detour through low-land rainforest and ends at the Emerald Pool. It is designed to have 18 spots for information. At every stop there are nature trail signs and many trees along the route are labeled in green signs. The trail takes the walkers through a variety of habitats, climbing up on to a limestone shelf skirting the foothills, and guides them past a beautiful forest pool and through a natural clearing back to the Emerald Pool. The nature trail provides an enjoyable ‘forest experience’ to the forest hiking lovers or bird-watchers; observing wild animals, including over 100 species of birds, lizards, squirrels, frogs, and butterflies, listening to the birds and insects, examining the trees and other plants, and looking for the tracks of larger animals. It may take 1-3 hours to walk the full 2.7 km trail. Consequently, the Tina Jolliffe Nature Trail is not popular among tourists who do not enjoy long hikes.