Attractions
Island State Brewing
Address: 32 Short St, Ulverstone TAS, Australia .Island State Brewing is a family owned Brewery producing small batch beers. Fantastic atmosphere with great beer and food to match.
Anzac Park
Address: Grove St, Ulverstone TAS, Australia .Great little park by the Leven River. Kids love the big slide!
Leven Canyon
Address: Leven Canyon Lookout, Leven Canyon Lookout Track, Nietta TAS, Australia .The Leven Canyon is a must see whilst staying in Ulverstone.
Preston Falls
Address: Preston Falls, Raymond Road, Preston TAS, Australia .Preston Fallis is a 25m waterfall on Preston Creek with a lookout accessed by a short 120m track.
Leven Canyon and Gunns Plains Caves Tour
Address: 46 Cave Road, Gunns Plains TAS, Australia .Discover Tasmania’s best tourist destination at Gunns Plains Caves. A limestone show cave, near Gunns Plains.
Wings Wildlife Park
Address: 137 Winduss Road, Gunns Plains TAS, Australia .Award winning family owned wildlife park where you can explore and get up close with the wildlife! See over 150 different species.
Penguin Foreshore
Address: 68B Main Road, Penguin TAS, Australia .Beautiful little town right on the coast just 12 km from Ulverstone
Splash Devonport Aquatic Centre
Address: 260 Steele Street, Devonport TAS, Australia .Officially re-opened in January 2014, the original Aquatic Centre’s outdoor 50 metre pool and waterslide are now complemented by a 25 metre eight-lane indoor swimming pool, an indoor learn to swim/warm water exercise pool with water play features, an outdoor water play splash pad and a fully equipped Health Club with a Gymnasium and a Group Exercise Studio.
Braddons Lookout
Address: Braddons Lookout Road, Leith TAS, Australia .Beautiful place to view the countryside and the sea. Good parking area. Perfect to photograph an Aurora. Flat area for access. Informative plaques.
Devonport Maritime Museum
Address: Bass Strait Maritime Centre, Gloucester Avenue, Devonport TAS, Australia .Museum devoted to local maritime history featuring maps, prints & a computerized sailing simulator.
Devonport Bluff
Address: Bluff Road, Devonport TAS, Australia .Great viewing lookout
Emu Valley Rhododendron Gardens
Address: Emu Valley Rhododendron Garden, Breffny Road, Romaine TAS, Australia .We are an independent non-profit community organisation which is developing and maintaining a multi-award winning private garden, aimed at showcasing and conserving the Rhododendron Genus. In our botanical paradise, we grow over half of the known approximately 1000 species of rhododendrons in the world.
Located near the port city of Burnie in Tasmania, come and discover our 11ha garden which houses over 24,000 plants in a woodland setting. It features rhododendrons from the icy Himalayas to tropical New Guinea, and across the Pacific to the Americas, all laid out in the geographical arrangement from where they originated along with their companion plants.
Dip Falls
Address: Dip Falls, Dip Falls Road, Mawbanna TAS, Australia .The waterfall is situated in the Dip Range Regional Reserve at an elevation of 218 metres (715 ft) above sea level and descends in the range of 22–34 metres (72–112 ft),[2] near the village of Sisters Beach[3] and approximately 36 kilometres (22 mi) southeast of Stanley via the Bass Highway.
Boat Harbour
Address: Boat Harbour Beach TAS, Australia .Boat Harbour is a rural locality in the local government area (LGA) of Waratah–Wynyard in the North-west and west LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) north-west of the town of Wynyard. The 2021 census has a population of 339 for the state suburb of Boat Harbour.[1]
Penguin Beer Company
Address: Penguin Beer Co, Main Road, Penguin TAS, Australia .Visit us at 1/85 Main Road, Penguin and taste our range of locally brewed beers. Dine in from lunch until dinner 7 days a week. Our tap house features a deck overlooking the beautiful beach of Penguin, relax and experience a tasting paddle of our signature brews. Entertainment weekly, live music, trivia & events.
Alchymia
Address: Alchymia Distillery, Tollymore Road, Table Cape TAS, Australia .Welcome to our passion! We are a family business committed to making the best small-batch handcrafted Single Malt Whisky, Gin, Vodka & Liqueurs possible.Alchymia is the Latin word for Alchemy. In the 17th Century Alchemists believed that essential base elements could be turned into something superior, their secretive experiments usually involved heat and the mixing of liquids, looking to create the ‘elixir of life’!Alchymia Distillery using the same philosophy, we take base ingredients and through the process of distilling, transform them into superior, hand-crafted spirits that will delight you.
Head Alchemist Matt is busy crafting our ‘elixir of life’.
Table Cape
Address: Table Cape TAS, Australia .Table Cape is an extinct volcano located near Wynyard on the North West of Tasmania, Australia, it is also the name of the locality which encompasses the geological feature. Table Cape is a more or less circular extinct volcano with a flat top, its northern and eastern faces rise steeply from Bass Strait to a height of approximately 170 metres (560 ft) above sea level.[2] It was named by British navigator, Matthew Flinders, as he and George Bass circumnavigated Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) in 1798 upon the Norfolk. Flinders also progressively named the nearby Circular Head, Three Hummock and Hunter Islands.[3]
Table Cape's top and surrounding areas are composed of fertile basalt soils and are heavily cultivated,[2] the area is renowned for the annual flowering of tulips during spring and accompanying tulip festival.[4] Table Cape locality has a population of 87
Stanley
Address: Stanley TAS, Australia .Stanley is a town on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia. It is the second-last major township on the north-west coast when travelling west, Smithton being the larger township in the Circular Head municipality. According to the 2021 census, Stanley had a population of 595.[1
Today Stanley is a tourist destination and the main fishing port on the northwest coast of Tasmania.
The most distinctive landmark in Stanley is Munatrik,[7] commonly called The Nut, an old extinct volcano. Bass and Flinders sighted it on their circumnavigation of Van Diemen's Land (now called Tasmania) in 1798 and named it Circular Head. It has steep sides and rises to 143 metres with a flat top. It is possible to walk to the top of The Nut via a steep track or a chairlift.
Tourists regularly travel to Highfield (the original home of the Van Diemen's Land company in Circular head, northwest of the township) to view the picturesque northern beaches with The Nut in the background. The port on the southern side of The Nut is a regularly used fishing spot.
