Mount Field National Park Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
national park in Tasmania, Australia
About Mount Field National Park
The park was established in 1916, making it, along withFreycinet National Park, Tasmania's oldest national park. However, even before that, the area around Russell Falls was protected for its natural beauty since 1885, and making that Tasmania's first nature reserve with the last known wild thylacine (Tasmanian tiger) captured in the region in 1933. The reserve was called "National Park" before 1946, but was officially renamed to its present name in 1947, but the town next to the park is still called "National Park". During the Pleistocene period, snowfield covered the top of the Mount Field plateau and fed glaciers in the surrounding valleys. A large, 12 km long glacier formed the broad river valley and the cirque walls above Lake Seal. Twisted Tarn, Twilight Tarn, and the tarns on the ta
Top Attractions in Mount Field National Park
Explore the best things to see and do in Mount Field National Park:
- ★Horseshoe Falls
- ★Lady Barron Falls
- ★Lake Dobson
- ★Lake Fenton
- ★Lake Newdgate
- ★Lake Newdgate Hut
- ★Mount Mawson Skifield
- ★Platypus Tarn Lake
Where to Stay in Mount Field National Park
- 🏨Mount Field Campground
- 🏨Mount Field Government Huts
- 🏨National Park Hotel
- 🏨Russell Falls Holiday Cottages
- 🏨Scout Hall
Mount Field National Park Travel Guide Sections
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