Horsetail Falls (1.6km), Queenstown, Tasmania

Horsetail Falls is a 1.6km, grade 2 hike located in the Queenstown, Tasmania. The hike should take around 45 mins to complete.

Length: 1.6km

Duration: 45 mins

Grade: 2

Style: Return

Start: 2 Tyndall Street

End: 2 Tyndall Street

Location: Queenstown

Closest town: Gormanston

Tasmania

From state capital: TBA

Longitude: 145.5921063

Latitude: -42.0818955

Hike summary

This hike summary has been provided by Waterfalls of Tasmania and as such, not all information has been provided on this site. For more information on this waterfall hike, please visit Waterfalls of Tasmania.

There are many waterfalls throughout Tasmania that are worth exploring! One of the best ways to discover some of the best scenery in Tasmania is simply hiking to a waterfall. Waterfalls of Tasmania has the most informative and thorough documentation about Tasmania's most popular waterfalls.

There are many scientific reasons why visiting a waterfall is good for our mental and physical health. I won't go into them here but I will say that exploring waterfalls on your hikes is a great way to break up the journey as their beauty alone is good for the soul. Search for more hikes with waterfalls here.

Photography by Craig Doumouras

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About the region

Queenstown is the gateway to the west coast with a rich and rugged mining history, a unique 'moonscape' and loads of wild west appeal. It's also close to the edge of Tasmania's World Heritage Wilderness Area and surrounded by great fishing lakes.

Queenstown, the largest town in Tasmania's west, is surrounded by dramatic hills and mountains and was once the world's richest mining town. The copper mining and mass logging in the early 1900s created a surreal and rocky 'moonscape' of bare coloured conglomerate.

Although Mother Nature is slowly creeping back into the landscape, the scenic drive into Queenstown down a spiraling road with over 90 bends is still nothing short of spectacular and a testament to the brutal reality of Tasmania's mining past.

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