Mount Wellington - Hobart Tasmania
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Experience’s & Tours of Mt Wellington Hobart
Hobart Conference / City Famil Tour: take a Mt Wellington group tour on your conference / corporate trip in Hobart Tasmania. While waiting for your accommodation, see one of Hobart’s must have. From
Hobart Airport Transfer: are you a travel agent that has an inbound group coming to Tasmania and they really want to see and experience this great attraction? No problem, lets see how we can make it a part of your airport group transfer to Hobart Airport. 2 - 200 + People
Combo Mt Wellington Sightseeing Day Tours: Feel like having us take you up Mt Wellington but wanting to walk down or mountain bike down Mt Wellington instead? No problem, we can organise that for you as well.
Mt Wellington Summit Lookout - Tasmania
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Mount Wellington - Hobart Tasmania
Mt Wellington is one of the places that the locals of Hobart City love to think of as theirs. The mountain is a place of refugee from the hustle and bustle of the city life and also a place where the history and present of Hobart collide.
With more than a dozen events and things that happen on the mountain over the course of the year, it offers visitors and locals alike the perfect way to see or gaze onto Hobart city from what must be one of the best mountain to city viewpoints int he world.
The 21-km drive to the summit passes through temperate rain forest to sub-alpine flora and glacial rock formations, ending in panoramic views of Hobart, Bruny Island, South Arm and the Tasman Peninsula.
The diversity of plant and animal life reflects the many micro-climates that exist in the park's perimeter. A total of 500 native plant species live here, including many endemic Tasmanian plants. A diverse range of fauna also call the park home, including dozens of bird species and a long list of ground animals including potoroos, pademelons, bettongs, bandicoots, possums, platypus and echidna.
No other city in Australia has a vista like this one atop Mt Wellington. The interpretation center at the top protects you from the blustering winds while an open viewing platform on the western side of the car park looks out to the World Heritage Wilderness Area beyond.
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Mt Wellington Summit Lookout - Tasmania
Mt Wellington Summit; through winter the summit will receive a blanket of snow - Tasmania
Private Group Coach Tours of Mt Wellington
Travelling as a private group could be one of the best decision you make when wanting some of the best Tasmanian sightseeing tours available. Our Partner business, Coal River Coaches and Bus Charter Tasmania has been operating in Tasmania for over 25 years and is one of the leading coach companies in Tasmania. With the most professional coach captains and the best luxury coaches travelling Tasmania on sightseeing tours, these extended sightseeing trips are a great way to experience this fabulous state of Tasmania.
Coal River Coaches professionally trained coach captain undergo an extensive inhouse 12 week training program so that they are adequately prepared for any group tour or sightseeing experience that may be required. All group sightseeing tour coach captains are accredited Tourism Tasmania - Tasmanian Specialists tour guides with all captains having completed the online requirements for this qualification.
Customized Tasmanian Sightseeing Tours & Travel Itineraries: With more than 25 years of Tasmanian sightseeing tour and travel experience, the team at Coal River Coaches has the ability to create a small to large group tour and travel program that is based entirely around the groups needs or desires.
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Mt Wellington Day Walks & Short Trips
Mt Wellington provides a great way to get back into nature a little bit with lots of options for day walks and short tips on the mountain. With walks available from 1 - 6 hours over the day and accessible directly from Hobart, they give inbound guests a great way to have a day out and about while not having to travel more than 5 minutes from Hobart.
There are several businesses that run Mt Wellington day walks and these can be easily found here:
If you are planning to travel or walk on Mt Wellington yourself, we recommend that you have a look at the Hobart City Councils page: here so that you are able to get the most up to date information on what Mt Wellington conditions and weather are, as well as whether some tracks are closed or open.
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Mt Wellington Summit; Tasmania - Group Tours
Mt Wellington: When Can I Go Up There?
Access to Wellington Park is free and the park is almost always open, except when emergency closures are necessary (usually due to extreme weather). The observation shelter and toilets at the summit are open from 7am to 10pm from September to April, but close earlier at 5.30pm during the cooler months of May to August.
The open air lookouts are always open. Sunrise, sunset, and golden hour are particularly spectacular times to visit (when the weather cooperates). Sometimes a blanket of cloud covers the view of Hobart, but this is magical in its own way.
Mt Wellington Summit; Tasmania
Tasmanian Hire Cars & Vehicles for Mt Wellington
Hiring your own car to travel or tour around Tasmania is a great idea and one that will allow you the best timeframe to explore at your own pace. Mt Wellington will afford you some of the best views of Hobart City after reaching the summit of the mountain, but there are some things to note as your travel or before travelling up the mountain.
some immobilizers don’t work at the top of Mt Wellington and should be tested or thought of before reaching the very top of the mountain. If you are unsure, please direct your questions to the Hobart City Council. You may like to park at the lower summit car park and walk the rest of the way to the summit (we advise caution with this)
The top of Mt Wellington is 1275 metres in height. The windchill factor here can be mild to serve. Please remember to take pack suitable clothing for the mountain.
The road can be very narrow in some areas, places travel slowly or with caution as you drive up or down the mountain. We recommend that only experienced drivers tackle the mountain.
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Car Hire in Hobart Tasmania is a local business that is focused on making your Tasmanian experience the best that it possibly can be. With a wide range of Tasmanian car rental and hire vehicle options to be able to offer you or your group from cars, small vans or minibuses, trailers and even large buses and luxury touring coaches. We can offer cheap car hire in hobart, van hire tasmania, long term car or van rental in hobart or that local car hire next door feeling.
Whether you are looking for a corporate car hire or rental or simply for a lesirue car hire or rental to enjoy Tasmania, we have it all.
As locals who have been in the Tasmanian transport industry for over 30 years, the Byrne family has built a reputation for being reliable and trustworthy. With a commitment to new and top of the range vehicles in the self-drive space, the Byrne family is not only an established transport brand name, but also brings the same passion, dedication and commitment to car transport and self-drive vehicles.
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Mt Wellington: Food & Beverage Options
Mt Wellington only has one option for getting any food and beverage options as you travel up and down the mountain - Lost Freight Cafe at the Springs Strop. This cafe is a great place, basically halfway to the top of Mt Wellington and is run by a long term member of the Hobart hospitality team. With espresso coffee and small gourmet options that is a perfect early morning break for a couple or group to break up a tour.
Several locals can be found here on any given day, just taking a break from work or riding the mountain bike trails that are all over the mountain.
Alternatively, you may like to purchase a food and beverage hamper from one of Hobarts best grocers; Hill Street Grocer so that you can a picnic style experience for your or your group. There a several hampers that can be purchased and picked up in the morning.
Lost Frieght Cafe
LOST FREIGHT- A SHIPPING CONTAINER CAFE LOCATED AT THE SPRINGS, MOUNT WELLINGTON TASMANIA
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Hill Street Grocer
It's an unlikely trio to be found running a gourmet grocery store. Hill Street is owned and run by brothers Marco, Nick and Nektarios Nikitaras and their families. But their passion for fresh produce and delicious food, and a flair for business, has seen Hill Street become one of Tasmania’s leading food retailers with stores in West Hobart, New Town, Blackmans Bay, Dodges Ferry, South Hobart, Latrobe, Longford, Devonport and Lauderdale.
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Must See Mt Wellington Destinations
There are definitely some must see places in Tasmania when you are considering planning your Tasmanian Sightseeing tours or travel. We have listed some of our favourites that you absolutely must see why you are travelling here in Tasmania on your sightseeing tours.
Fresh Water Spring - Roadside
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Summit & Lookout
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IS WELLINGTON PARK A NATIONAL PARK?
Wellington Park is protected as a reserve (so no need for a Parks Pass). Beautiful kunanyi/Mt Wellington is the highest peak in the park, at 1,271 metres in altitude. Many micro-climates exist, allowing diverse plant and animal life to flourish. Geological highlights include the sheer dolerite columns of the Organ Pipes, hidden caverns of the Lost World, Collins Cap and Collins Bonnet (aka Sleeping Beauty), the band of sandstone beneath the Wellington Range, and mudstone waterfalls in the foothills.
Aerial View of the top of Mt Wellington Hobart Tasmania
Mt Wellington: Some Events to Factor In
Point To Pinnacle
Just some thoughts on why you should include this in any sightseeing tour of Tasmania if you happen to be travelling at the right time.
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Tasmanian Sightseeing Tours: Things to consider before Travelling
Just some of the things that you may like to consider on your Tasmanian sightseeing tours and travel before departing. Just in case you didn’t think of it because you are so busy wanting to get into the sightseeing tour experience.
Good Soled & Enclosed Shoes: Tasmania has a number of nature elements to its sightseeing tours where you will need or should have a good pair of walking shoes that help support your feet as they often traverse rocky or uneven ground. There are several shops in Tasmania’s major cities that can assist you with a purchase if you haven’t brought your own pair already.
Scarf or Wolen Beanie: Tasmania has some of the most unpredictable weather in Australia and it literally can be sunny one minute and then wet and raining the next minute. So we recommend that you have a good scarf to cut the wind chill factor and a beanie to keep those ears nice and warm. Especially if you are planning to get further out into the countryside or Mt Wellington or Cradle Mountain. This will help to make your sightseeing tours a pleasant experience and not one where you just want to get out of the cold.
Umbrella: Its up to you whether you want to rick taking an umbrella up the mountain. When it starts raining at the summit of the mountain, it generally is very windy anyway so it may make the idea of an umbrella irrelevant.
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Mt Wellington History
Mount Wellington (Hobart) lies directly behind Hobart and is the city's dominant feature. It is 1,270 metres high and was formed during the Permian, Triassic and Jurassic ages. The Organ Pipes are the predominant feature, named for both appearance and sounds produced by the wind. The Van Diemen's Land Aborigines were the first to see the Mountain, calling it either Unghanyahletta or Pooranetere. The first white man to record its existence was Lieutenant William Bligh in 1788.
During early exploration the Mountain underwent many name changes, including Table Hill, Montagne du Plateau, Skiddaw, Mount Collins, and Table Mountain after its similarity to Table Mountain, Cape of Good Hope. Between 1822 and 1824 it was re-named Mount Wellington after the Duke of Wellington. George Bass was the first white man to climb the Mountain, in 1798.
During settlement the Mountain's greatest asset was water, firstly from the Hobart Rivulet and later carried from mountain streams through an extensive system of aqueducts, pipelines and reservoirs to supply the town below. For over a hundred years Mount Wellington was exploited for its natural resources – timber, stone, food, ice, skins, ferns and seeds.
Mt Wellington Summit; before the summit road was put in - Tasmania
Timber was the main commodity – wattle, she-oak, stringy bark and blue gum – and was used for building and firewood. Tree ferns were cut down and used extensively for decoration and lined the streets and arches during the Royal Tour in 1901. Concern by conservationists and tourist promoters regarding denudation began in 1870, but it was not until 1906 it was declared a Public Park.
The cliffs, boulder fields, swamps and gullies provide diverse habitat for fauna and flora During the nineteenth century Mount Wellington became a mecca for botanists. Examples of flora and fauna were sent to England for examination and classification and many still bear the names of the botanists who collected them. New discoveries continue to be made. Over 400 plant species are found on Mount Wellington while 62 species of birds were recorded in 1976. Animal life is mainly nocturnal. Snakes, frogs and lizards are common during the day. A living fossil, Anaspides tasmaniae, a tiny freshwater shrimp, was recorded in 1837.
Mount Wellington has a vivid history. It has been devastated by fire and flood; the scar of a major landslip is clearly visible. It has provided sites for weather stations, AUSSAT's Barth Station and telecommunication facilities. Recreational purposes have included bushwalking, foot racing, cliff climbing and sightseeing. Many huts were built on the Mountain and by the 1930s a network of tracks existed. The Mountain was also popular with skiers, but lost favour when the snow became unreliable. The Pinnacle Road, opened in 1937, enables easy access to the top. Mount Wellington continues to be Hobart's major tourist attraction, offering spectacular panoramic views of the city, river, land and sea below.
Mt Wellington; the mountain has been used by walking clubs for a number of years - Tasmania