Kelso is a suburb in the City of Townsville,
Queensland, Australia, the last of three suburbs
along Riverway Drive. Kelso is the only suburb
on Riverway Drive that has homes backing onto
the Ross River.

Kelso is connected to Townsville by the Sunbus
Townsville. This is also a source of transport for
most students who go to schools around Kelso
and Townsville, to and from school.

To make way for construction of the Ross River
Dam in 1970, the Townsville City Council
resumed 1620ha of the property's best grazing
land. At its peak, Laudham Park stretched for
more than 40,000ha along both banks of the
Upper Ross River to the foothills of Mount Stuart
and out to the Pinnacles part of Hervey
Range.dead link. Most of what was Laudham
Park is today under water due to the
construction of the dam and the rest is now the
suburb of Kelso. The first residential blocks
started selling back in 1966.