Ben Lomond National Park

Tasmania

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As well as being home to Tasmania's best-equipped ski field, this park is popular with bushwalkers, who explore the flower-strewn mountain plateau in late spring and summer. The Tasmanian Parks & Wildlife Service is currently constructing some gravel walking tracks for summer walks.

National parks passes are available from self-registration boxes at the entry station prior to the Carr Villa Rd turnoff and at the information booth adjacent to the Legges Tor public shelter. Cash only (or buy one online).

Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

  • Cataract Gorge

    Cataract Gorge

    29.75 MILES

    At magnificent Cataract Gorge, right at the city centre's edge, the bushland, cliffs and ice-cold South Esk River feel a million miles from town. At First…

  • Woolmers Estate

    Woolmers Estate

    27.3 MILES

    Part of the Unesco World Heritage Australian Convict Sites listing, this pastoral estate on the Macquarie River was built by Thomas Archer in 1817 and…

  • Clarendon

    Clarendon

    20.52 MILES

    This 1838 mansion on the banks of the South Esk River, built for wealthy wool grower and merchant James Cox, is a Georgian gem that looks like it’s…

  • Queen Victoria Museum

    Queen Victoria Museum

    29.02 MILES

    Inside the restored and reinvented Inveresk railway yards, QVMAG has the usual assembly of dinosaurs and stuffed animals, but they sit alongside historic…

  • Queen Victoria Art Gallery

    Queen Victoria Art Gallery

    29.17 MILES

    Colonial paintings, including works by John Glover, are the pride of the collection at this art gallery in a meticulously restored 19th-century building…

  • St Columba Falls

    St Columba Falls

    21.48 MILES

    Further into the Pyengana Valley from the cheese factory and the pub you'll find St Columba Falls, Tasmania's highest. Here the South George River takes a…

  • WA6M99 Front Entrance and Garden to Franklin House, Launceston Tasmania, Australia

    Franklin House

    26.51 MILES

    A relatively short drive south of the city, Franklin House is one of Launceston’s most fetching Georgian-era homes. Built in 1838 by former convict and…

  • Brickendon

    Brickendon

    28.1 MILES

    Wander through the convict-built farm village and gorgeous heritage gardens at Brickendon, a property that has been in the Archer family since 1824 and is…

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Nearby Tasmania attractions

1. Ralphs Falls

19.96 MILES

Check out some vertical water at Ralphs Falls – take the signed turn-off to the right shortly before St Columba Falls. There’s a 20-minute return walk, or…

2. Australian Fly Fishing Museum

20.44 MILES

This small but impressive volunteer-operated museum has a beautiful collection of rods, reels and flies, but was closed at the time of writing because of…

3. Clarendon

20.52 MILES

This 1838 mansion on the banks of the South Esk River, built for wealthy wool grower and merchant James Cox, is a Georgian gem that looks like it’s…

4. St Columba Falls

21.48 MILES

Further into the Pyengana Valley from the cheese factory and the pub you'll find St Columba Falls, Tasmania's highest. Here the South George River takes a…

5. Evandale Market

21.49 MILES

An exuberant mix of happy locals selling fresh fruit and veg, kids' pony rides (and occasionally a mini-train), food vans, and stalls selling crafts and…

6. St Andrews Anglican Church

21.88 MILES

Sometimes referred to as 'the other St Andrews' (there are two churches of this name in Evandale), this building with its soaring spire dates from 1872…

8. Water Tower

22.1 MILES

As you enter town from the north you'll see this castle-like red-brick water tower (1896), which encloses a convict-dug tunnel designed to supply water to…