Activities in Strahan & West Coast

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Cove Gallery (Risby Cove)  (Strahan)

The Cove Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Strahan on Tasmania’s west coast. Strahan is four-and-a-half hours west of Hobart (298 kilometres/185 miles) and south-west of Launceston (290 kilometres/180 miles). The ... [More Info]

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Eric Thomas Galley Museum  (Queenstown)

The development of Queenstown and the West Coast are featured in more than 900 photographs displayed in the 23 rooms of this museum. The pre-1940s photographs were collected and the museum established by Mr Eric ... [More Info]

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Gordon River, Franklin - Gordon Wild Rivers National Park  (Strahan)

The dark waters of the Gordon flow through the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area before quietly entering Macquarie Harbour. Cruise boats from Strahan explore several kilometres into the rivers wide, calm ... [More Info]

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Hogarth Falls  (Strahan)

One of the 60 Great Short Walks series, this walk starts at the top of Peoples Park, in Strahan, and is a gentle, meandering stroll through sweet-smelling bush to a delightful waterfall. Local schoolchildren share ... [More Info]

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Lake Burbury  (Queenstown)

Lake Burbury is a popular fishing lake on the edge of Tasmania’s World Heritage Wilderness Area. At Lake Burbury, just 15 minutes east of Queenstown, you can fish for the legendary Tasmanian wild trout, with both ... [More Info]

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Lake Mackintosh  (Tullah)

Lake Mackintosh is a Hydro Tasmania lake near Tullah in Tasmania’s west. Tullah is a former mining town, An hour’s drive north of Strahan (80 kilometres/50 miles) and ninety minutes south of Burnie (110 kilometres/68 ... [More Info]

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Lake Pieman  (Rosebery)

Lake Pieman is a Hydro Tasmania lake near Rosebery in Tasmania’s west. Rosebery is a mining town, five hours’ drive (335 kilometres/208 miles) north west of Hobart, and ninety minutes south of Burnie (125 kilometres/77 ... [More Info]

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Lake St Clair, Cradle Mt - Lake St Clair National Park  (Lake St Clair)

The deepest freshwater lake in Australia (190 metres/623 feet), Lake St Clair was scooped during several glaciations over the past two million years. The Lake forms the southern boundary of Cradle Mountain-Lake ... [More Info]

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Montezuma Falls  (Rosebery)

Montezuma Falls is Tasmania’s highest waterfall, located near Rosebery on the state’s west coast. Rosebery is a 90-minute drive south of Burnie (125 kilometres). The track to the Falls begins at Williamsford, two ... [More Info]

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Queenstown Golf Club  (Queenstown)

The Queenstown Golf Club is a nine-hole course in far west Tasmania. Queenstown is a four-hour drive west of Hobart (256 kilometres/159 miles), and 40 minutes east of Strahan (40 kilometres/25 miles). The Queenstown ... [More Info]

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Radford Wood Crafts  (Tullah)

Radford Wood Crafts is a woodturning studio and gallery at Tullah, western Tasmania. Tullah is a former mining town, a short drive north-east of Rosebery and 45 minutes north-east of Strahan (51 kilometres/32 miles). At ... [More Info]

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Rosebery Golf Course  (Rosebery)

Rosebery Golf Course is a scenic, nine-hole golf course in far west Tasmania. It is located just outside Rosebery, a small mining town surrounded by mountains and rainforest. Rosebery is 90 minutes south west of ... [More Info]

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Sarah Island Historic Site  (Strahan)

In the remote reaches of Macquarie Harbour, Sarah Island was established, in 1821, as a penal settlement where convicts laboured under the harshest conditions in the rainforest felling Huon pines for boat building. ... [More Info]

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Ship That Never Was - The  (Strahan)

Tasmanias longest running play The Ship That Never Was, based on a real event in 1834 when the last ship built at the convict settlement at Macquarie Harbour was about to sail for the new prison at Port Arthur ... [More Info]

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Strahan Golf Club  (Strahan)

The Strahan Golf Club is a nine-hole course, close to central Strahan. Strahan is Tasmania’s major west coast town, a four-and-a-half hour drive from Hobart (298 kilometres/185 miles) and Launceston (290 kilometres/180 ... [More Info]

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Strahan Visitors Centre  (Strahan)

Architects, writers, woodturners, gardeners and historians contributed their talents to the acclaimed exhibition West Coast Reflections at the Strahan Visitors Centre. The story of the people of West Coast starts ... [More Info]

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Strahan Woodworks  (Strahan)

The Strahan Woodworks is a timber workshop and gallery at Strahan on Tasmania’s west coast. Strahan is a four-and-a-half hour drive from Hobart (298 kilometres) and Launceston (290 kilometres). Established in 1990 ... [More Info]

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Teepookana Plateau  (Strahan)

Guided commercial tours and guided walks can be arranged at Strahan. Climb to the plateau, once logged for Huon pine and today the site of a forestry operation salvaging Huon pine stumps and limbs left by early ... [More Info]

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Wee Georgie Wood Steam Railway  (Tullah)

Wee Georgie Wood is a 600mm-gauge (2 feet) 1921 Fowler 0-4-0 tank steam locomotive that operates on the short Farrell Tramway, which opened for operation between the then isolated mining township of Tullah and ... [More Info]

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West Coast Wilderness Railway  (Queenstown)

The West Coast Wilderness Railway is a steam train journey through mountainous Tasmanian wilderness. Tours depart daily from Queenstown (256 kilometres/ four hours’ drive west of Hobart), and Strahan (298 kilometres/ ... [More Info]

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