Hollybank Forest (3.5km), Hollybank Forest Reserve, Tasmania

Hollybank Forest is a 3.5km, grade 1 hike located in the Hollybank Forest Reserve, Tasmania. The hike should take around 1.5 hrs to complete.

Length: 3.5km

Duration: 1.5 hrs

Grade: 1

Style: Circuit

Start: Holybank Treetops Adventure

End: Holybank Treetops Adventure

Location: Hollybank Forest Reserve

Closest town: Underwood

Tasmania

From state capital: 220km

Longitude: 147.20757

Latitude: -41.302877

Hike summary

Hollybank has spacious picnic facilities nestled amongst ash and pine trees. Walking tracks lead through a mix of native bush and plantation forests. The ash trees, originally planted as a wood supply for cricket bats and tennis racquets, are particularly attractive in autumn.

Route and GPX file

Total distance: 3446 m
Max elevation: 388 m
Min elevation: 335 m
Total climbing: 108 m
Total descent: -108 m

Download file: Hollybank%20Forest.gpx

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

Tips

15-40 minute return (2km circuit) depending on your choice of track. An information panel is located just inside the reserve entrance.

Toilets, picnic shelters, wood barbecues, gas barbecue and bush cricket pitch (BYO cricket gear).

Wide tracks with gentle grades are usually dry underfoot.

Dogs are welcome if kept on a leash. Bicycles are not permitted off the formed roads.

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Launceston Tamar and the North

Turn into Hollybank Road from road B81, 7km from Lilydale and 19km from Launceston via the suburb of Rocherlea.

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Trail Hiking Australia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands on which we hike and pay respects to their Elders, past and present, and we acknowledge the First Nations people of other communities who may be here today.

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