Cooktown Markets

Cooktown Markets are held every Saturday morning in Lions Park, 116 Charlotte Street, along the Endeavour River, just past the bowling club. Cook Shire says stalls include Cape York Peninsula fresh produce, baked goods, locally made handicrafts, natural soaps, and jewellery. Tourism copy adds passionfruit, bananas, mangoes, jams, honey, dried fruit, chutneys, and second-hand goods. Cooktown Orchid Travellers Park lists fruit and veg, cakes and preserves, plants, Asian takeaway, and a fish van. Council ran a budget roadshow at the markets on 21 February 2026, so the Saturday market was still running then. Rossville, Bloomfield, and Discovery Festival markets are separate. Some guides say weather permitting or slightly different hours. Use 7.30am to 11.30am from council.