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UNESCO World Heritage Site
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Hartz Mountains National Park is a national park in Southern Tasmania and is part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. Being only a little more than an hour drive from the state capital of Hobart, Hartz Mountains National Park is an easy-to-get-to park for wilderness hiking.
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It takes about twenty minutes from Hartz Road, and about one kilometre, making it suitable for most people. But the drop of the waterfall is just one of things that make this place so unique and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
It's the roof of the park and is accessible via a somewhat difficult trail (see details under #Do).
One of the easiest and accessible glacial lakes to get to in Tasmania, this lake was initially formed as ice, but snow later built up around the mountains surrounding the lake. If you're doing the Hartz Peak track, it's a very short diversion to get to this unique lake.
Another very easily accessible glacial lake, this lake gives more an insight into the alpine and subalpine vegetation of the park surrounded by ancient King Billy pines. The vegetation seen at this lake is very uncommon to see in Australia, hence why this spot is somewhat popular.
A lookout overlooking the Huon Valley, a valley with dense thick forests that was present near the entrance of the park, which you'd have passed to get to this lookout. If you come to this lookout in either December or January, you may as well see the Tasmanian waratah bloom in bright red, taking over the already alluring scene.
Hartz Mountains National Park can only be accessed via car, although it's not far from the state capital of Hobart. From Hobart, head down the freeway onto A6 Huon Highway up to Kingston.
Read in the guideThe only bit of road in the park (which is unpaved), goes from the park's entrance to the day use shelter and toilets, and apart from that, to get to the rest of the park, you will need to walk.
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