Duckhole Lake Walk (4.4km), Southwest National Park, Tasmania

Duckhole Lake Walk is a 4.4km, grade 2 hike located in the Southwest National Park, Tasmania. The hike should take around 1.5 hrs to complete.

Length: 4.4km

Duration: 1.5 hrs

Grade: 2

Style: Return

Start: Coal Hill Road

End: Coal Hill Road

Location: Southwest National Park

Closest town: Southport

Tasmania

From state capital: 110km

Longitude: 146.892062

Latitude: -43.373139

Hike summary

This is an easy stroll to an idyllic lake. Duckhole Lake is a flooded sinkhole that is part of the surrounding cave and karst landscape.

Highlights

This walk makes an enjoyable addition to a visit to the Hastings Caves or a drive along Forestry Tasmania's Arve River Forest Drive.

The walk takes you through a forest of stringybarks and rainforest species such as sassafras and myrtle, and sections of tea tree swamp. The track follows a late 19th century sawmill tramway for much of the way, and remnants of the tramway can be seen.

Route and GPX file

Total distance: 4397 m
Max elevation: 159 m
Min elevation: 124 m
Total climbing: 74 m
Total descent: -74 m

Download file: Duckhole-Lake-Walk.gpx

For more information about this hiking trail please visit Parks and Wildlife Service Tasmania

Tips

Park entry fees apply.

Picnic table at lake. Toilets, cafÃƒƒ©, picnic and barbecue facilities and thermal swimming pool are located at Hastings Caves State Reserve approximately 7.5km from Duckhole Lake car park.

Level track suitable for all age groups.

Supervise children, water in creeks and lakes.

No pets, firearms or bicycles.

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Location

Getting there

South of Dover. Approaching from the north, take the old Hastings Road from the A6 at a junction 3.1km south of the Esperance River bridge in the township of Strathblane, after 1km turn right onto the Darcy Link Road and then left onto Creekton Rd until carpark and start of walking track is reached. From the south, turn off A6 onto Hastings Road, then turn off Hastings Road 3 kms after the Hastings Cave Visitor Centre right onto Chestermans Road, then right onto Coal Hill Road. Note that these are 4WD only, slippery, narrow roads with steep side slopes.

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