Ralphs Falls (2.5km), Mount Victoria Forest Reserve, Tasmania

Ralphs Falls is a 2.5km, grade 2 hike located in the Mount Victoria Forest Reserve, Tasmania. The hike should take around 1.25 hrs to complete.

Length: 2.5km

Duration: 1.25 hrs

Grade: 2

Style: Circuit

Start: Ralphs Falls Carpark

End: Ralphs Falls Carpark

Location: Mount Victoria Forest Reserve

Closest town: Ringarooma

Tasmania

From state capital: 298km

Longitude: 147.842846

Latitude: -41.311706

Hike summary

At over 90 metres Ralphs Falls is Tasmania’s highest single drop waterfall, a streaming ribbon of water plunging over a sheer rock face. Cash’s Gorge is a beautiful but relaxed walk of approximately 40 minutes through rainforest, stands of tea tree, sphagnum moss and rugged terrain.

Route and GPX file

Total distance: 2556 m
Max elevation: 825 m
Min elevation: 766 m
Total climbing: 147 m
Total descent: -147 m

Download file: Ralphs%20Falls.gpx

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

Tips

Picnic and toilet facilities nearby.

Involves 25 rough bush steps with hand rail.

Supervise children, hazardous cliffs.

Dogs, firearms and bicycles are not allowed.

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Location

Getting there

Road 423 from Ringarooma and then follow the signs to Ralphs Falls and Mount Victoria Forest Reserve. Alternatively, from Pyengana a turn-off to Ralphs Falls is marked shortly before St Columba Falls. Both these towns are accessed from highway A3. Please note the road in is rough and unsealed.

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About the region

Mount Victoria Reserve is a temperate rainforest area in North East Tasmania. It is of acknowledged conservation significance and was identified as a high priority Recommended Area for Protection (RAP) by authorities during the 1980s and protected as part of the Comprehensive and Representative (CAR) Reserve system touted by Tasmanian State and Federal Australian Governments as securing conservation values.

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Acknowledgement of Country

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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