A few hours walk to a tranquil wilderness lodge or the challenge of a multi day walk through Tasmania's famed Overland Track or along through the truly wild Tarkine Wilderness. Add a Tarkine Tour before or after your Huon Valley Escape.

Multi day walks through The Tarkine Wilderness or Overland Track from Cradle Mountain to Lake St Clair

The Tarkine is a remote landscape that encompasses the
Southern Hemispheres largest single tract of temperate
rainforest that dates back to Gondwana.

Myrtle trees can grow up to 50m tall and 4m in diameter, providing a dense canopy and open understory. The Tarkine and its rainforests, having survived largely unchanged for many millennia, are a global treasure.

The Tarkine also encompasses a wild coastline rich in Aboriginal history, with the word Tarkine having been adapted from the name ‘Tarkineer,’ a band of Aboriginal people living in northwest Tasmania. Evidence of Aboriginal occupation in the region includes innumerable middens, hut depressions, artefact scatters and ceremonial stone arrangements.

The Tarkine is incredibly important for its environmental and cultural values and a region that must be protected. Tarkine Trails are firm believers in conservation through experience. Though tourism is often an overlooked conservation tool, we recognise the importance of connecting people with the Tarkine and providing high quality, landmark experiences that leave people with an added appreciation for this magical place.

Tarkine Trails tours are deigned to suit a range of people, from the keen   bushwalkers out there wanting to get deep into the heart of the Tarkine and camp in tents, to those wanting fully accommodated tours that offer vehicle-supported bushwalks. Prior to the establishment of Tarkine Trails the Tarkine was largely unexplored. For that reason Tarkine Trails tours provide a unique experience of isolation and wildness.

Along all of our walks in the Tarkine we also allow guests to be a part of world class research. Tarkine Trails have motion sensored cameras hidden in the Tarkine to record carnivore activity, providing us with valuable data on not only the relationship between the numbers of carnivores relative with one another, but also the spread of the devil facial tumour disease, a disease which currently threatens the Tasmanian devil with extinction. It is those taking a tour with Tarkine Trails that funds this vital research.  

The power of taking a trip with Tarkine Trails is not only life changing for our guests, but it serves a fundamental role in the conservation of one of the most untouched, magical places left in the world.

Tarkine Explorer, 5 days

The journey starts in Hobart with guests joining us on route to Burnie for lunch and a gear check. After lunch, we head south toward our Tarkine Rainforest Retreat located in the South East corner of the Tarkine. We depart the main road and drive along a remote gravel track before gathering our packs for the forty minutes up a steep ridge into the lush green rain forest and towering canopy of giant Eucalyptus and Myrtle that surround the camp. On arrival at our camp, your guides show you to your accommodation (large twin share canvas tents) and then busy themselves preparing the evening meal in the Tarkine Longhouse, our new custom designed shelter perched on the edge of Tiger Ridge, affording stunning views into the rainforest canopy. Each meal has been carefully selected and designed by a Tasmanian chef to add to your experience. After dinner around our 12 seater Tasmanian Oak dinner table, relax on the lounge by our fire before a peaceful sleep nestled in the rainforest.

4 hour walk to the
Tarkine Retreat Lodge

The Tarkine Rainforest Retreat gives visitors access to a remote section of the Tarkine rainforest and the opportunity to experience the ancient rainforest from a comfortable base camp. Nestled amongst ancient forests and Eucalypts at Tiger Ridge, the retreat is the first of its kind in the region, and includes large private permanent tents erected amongst the trees, and the new Tarkine Longhouse – the hub for meals and relaxation around the fireplace. Located on the edge of a forested valley, the Tarkine Longhouse features an open design that allows guests to connect to the surrounding forests on three sides, and a cantilevered veranda extending into the lush canopy. Simply furnished to complement the ancient rainforest’s natural surrounds, the Tarkine Longhouse and Rainforest Retreat offers those seeking a relaxing and reconnecting experience the opportunity to experience the stunning wilderness without sacrificing the comforts of everyday life.

Supporting the
conservation ethic

As vast tracts of it intact wild places are now being sought after by offshore mining interests, we find ourselves poised on the verge of wholesale segmentation of the Tarkine wilderness zones. As a a refuge for vast tracts of intact ancient temperate rainforest, pristine river systems and internationally recognised cultural heritage the Tarkine by any measurement is big picture country, yet only 5% of its 447,000 hectare mass lies within National Park status.

The rest is a a plethora of reserve systems, none of which are protected from the mining industry. Tarkine Trails was born to provide a positive economic solution for this polarised region. Tarkine Trails pioneered the eco tourism industry in the Tarkine in order to demonstrate that the region could sustain itself on the back of a growing global demand for truly wild places. For the last decade it has been our participants that have enabled this vision to become a reality.

Today the Tarkines eco tourism potential has been proven and recognised by Tasmanias sytate goverment, a testament to the power of the Tarkine expereince. By joining a Tarkine Trails walk, you fuel a growing Industry that helps us to actively prove that the Tarkine can be bpth protected and serve Tasmanias economic needs into the long term future. Your Tarkine expereince is a vital chapter in the making of a legend. Join us.

Before or after your Tarkine Tour

Bonorong
Wildlife Sanctuary

Huon Bush Retreats

Buttongrass Retreat

60 Great Walks
Parks and Wildlife

Bruny Island Cruises