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Macquarie Heads Camping Ground offers bush campsite accommodation, great fishing and beautiful views whilst walking along the beach. Located 15km (30 minutes) from Strahan, access is by a gravel road and a boat ramp and public toilets are available. Please carry your own water and firewood.

Silver Hills is located on the main road into Queenstown, affording a peaceful and private motel environment. All guests enjoy free wireless internet, iPod docking stations and a great restaurant. Silver Hills offers modern motel multi-storey accommodation.

Cosy, spacious rooms with Queen sized beds as standard in a Quiet location. FREE WiFi.  Comfort Inn Gold Rush offers quality motel accommodation in Queenstown. The motel offers 26 comfortable, spacious, well appointed rooms for singles through to families.

The harbour may look beautiful - postcard perfect - but it has seen terrible hardship and untold suffering.

An exciting buggy tour operation giving people the ability to access the majestic Henty Dunes and the stunning beauty of Macquarie Heads. Using Polaris RZR 570 buggies tours cater for families, couples, singles and disabled.

Exclusive guided interpretive tours of World Heritage listed wilderness, working Hydropower assets, Huon and King Billy pining, heritage and pioneer mining sites. Lost Mines-Ancient Pines: Discover mining relics and lost mines amongst the ancient temperate rainforest of Tasmania's Western Wilderness.

Dine in or Takeaway just a snack or a complete meal and a range of grocery items

Built-in 1901 the Empire dates back to the wealth of the mining era at the turn of the 20th Century. It is the grand old lady of the West Coast and has a prominent facade in the town streetscape. Inside is a National Trust listed staircase made from Tasmanian Blackwood.

Situated in a federation-style building in the centre of town across the road from the World Heritage Cruise Centre. The ever-changing menu is based on the abundance of fresh local produce sourced directly from specialised growers and producers of the West Coast of Tasmania.

Australia’s longest running play tells the dramatic and hilarious true story about the last Great Escape from Sarah Island.

In Queenstown, our footy players play on a gravel oval, not grass. It’s not for the faint of heart. Built in 1895 the ground has been called the most infamous and feared football field in Australia.  The "Gravel" was inducted into the Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame in 2007.

Housed in the 1897 Imperial Hotel offering a unique collection telling stories of survival, endurance and sacrifice, as well as providing a very personal record of the people themselves and their daily lives.

Enjoy fantastic views of Queenstown after a steep, short walk - with mining heritage exhibits along the way.

Lake Mackintosh is one of the most beautiful lakes in the region. The lake and surrounding country is magnificent with myrtle, sassafras and eucalypt forests along with native ferns growing almost to the lake's edge.

Lake Burbury is a popular fishing lake on the edge of Tasmania's World Heritage Wilderness Area. A 20-minute drive east of Queenstown.  Facilities include toilets, picnic, barbecue facilities, along with boat launching facilities.  A caretaker lives on site.

Enjoy fantastic views of Queenstown after a steep, short walk - with mining heritage exhibits along the way.

Take a short walk on the edge of a mountain to discover a seasonal 50 metre waterfall at the foot of Mount Owen. The falls are best seen after heavy rain or in the winter/spring period but even during summer you'll experience magnificent mountain views.

Starting in People's Park, this walk will take you through an example of mixed forest. Among the towering gum trees you will also find species typical of temperate rainforest such as leatherwood, sassafras and myrtle.  Platypus can sometimes be seen in the creek below the falls.