Top choice in Tasmania
Hadspen's unreservedly gorgeous 1844 Red Feather Inn offers French Provincial–style boutique accommodation, with rooms ranging from attic doubles to a cottage sleeping eight. The Library and Garden Suites are particularly attractive. Full-day, well-regarded cooking classes (from $195) are held through winter in the country kitchen, which also services the in-house restaurant (three courses $85; open by appointment).
No kids under 16, except in the three cottages.
5.06 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…
9.36 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…
20.35 MILES
Pouring through Liffey Falls State Reserve, part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, is one of Tasmania's most classically beautiful…
14.3 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…
27.51 MILES
Cute Platypus House puts the world’s only two monotremes – the platypus and the echidna – on display for your viewing pleasure. Platypuses (including…
6.73 MILES
Inside the restored and reinvented Inveresk railway yards, QVMAG has the usual assembly of dinosaurs and stuffed animals, but they sit alongside historic…
5.99 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…
29.74 MILES
Near Nabowla, 22km west of Scottsdale, is the southern hemisphere's largest lavender farm. In the flowering season (mid-December to late January), the…
0.61 MILES
Built in 1819 by shipping entrepreneur Thomas Haydock Reibey, Entally is one of Tasmania’s oldest – and loveliest – country homesteads, painting a vivid…
3.62 MILES
This handsome four-storey mill on the main road through Carrick was built in 1846, and is now an antiques store.
3. Trevallyn Nature Recreation Area
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Artificial Lake Trevallyn on the South Esk River above Cataract Gorge is a favourite spot with the locals. Take a picnic and have a splash in the shallows…
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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…
5. St James Anglican Church & Cemetery
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This simple building on the old road to Hobart dates from 1845. Not open to the public.
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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…
5.99 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…