CATARACT GORGE:

Take a walk in the wilderness in the city! The Cataract Gorge Reserve reaches almost to the middle of the city of  Launceston. Walk along a rushing river through a dramatic rocky gorge surrounded by beautiful natural bushland.

You’ll emerge from the narrow part of  the gorge into an elegant Victorian park with tree rhododendrons, fern glades, a swimming pool, a chairlift, barbecues, a suspension bridge and mewing peacocks. (The chairlift is the longest single-span chairlift in the world.)

Walk back to the city on the other side of the river, through bushland, and think about joining one of the whitewater rafting or rock-climbing adventures in the gorge, or go hang-gliding at nearby Trevallyn.