Passes can either be purchased through .au, in any national park visitor centre, some travel information centres and Service Tasmania shops. If you only plan to repeatedly visit one park again and again, it's $46 in general, or $36.80 for concession holders. There is also the Annual Park Pass, which is valid in all parks, including Cradle Mountain. If you're staying in Tasmania for a few weeks and want to go numerous national parks, there's the Holiday Pass, which is valid for up to two months. A pass for your vehicle covers up to 8 occupants, you only need the per person pass if you arrive without a vehicle. This is particularly useful if you're going to numerous nearby parks. The fees are up-to-date as of December 2021.Ī daily parks pass is usually valid for 24 hours, and is usable in all parks although it does not include access to Cradle Mountain. There are numerous passes available, depending on your needs. To enter any national park in Tasmania, you'll need to have a valid parks pass to enter the park, which can be found here at the Parks Tasmania website. The park has no facilities within its boundary, so to the east is Derwent Bridge, and the west are Queenstown and further towards the coast, Strahan as the nearest places with facilities.Ĭruise boats departing from Strahan visit the park. The Lyell Highway (Route A10) runs through the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park. Clair Visitor Centre, 520 Lake St Clair Rd, Lake St Clair ( near Derwent Bridge), ☏ +61 3 6289 1115, 9AM–4PM. Vegetation types within the park are varied, including cool temperate rainforest, drier eucalypt forests and button grass moorland.Ĭlimate Visitor information įranklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park doesn't have any local visitor centres, so you will need to contact the office in Lake St Clair for anything. The landscape is characterised by impressive mountain peaks, beautiful rainforests, deep river valleys and spectacular gorges.
It became a national issue for the Tasmanian Wilderness Society, led by its director at the time, Bob Brown. The enthusiastic endorsement by Robin Gray's Liberal Government would have seen the river flooded. The Franklin Dam was part of a proposed hydro-electric power scheme that had been in the plans of The Hydro for some time. The Gordon and Franklin Rivers were the subject of one of Australia's largest conservation efforts. Frenchmans Cap is a dominant feature in the region, and can be seen on the skyline from the west and north of the park. The genesis of the Wild Rivers National Park was in the earlier Frenchmans Cap National Park which had the Franklin River as its boundary on the northern and western borders. It can be accessed from Lyell Highway in the northern part, and it can be entered in the mid region at Strathgordon. It was created as the Frenchmans Cap National Park, and was expanded to include a significant part of the Southwest Wilderness. The Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park is a part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area.
The park has an area of 4,463.42 km 2 (1,723.34 sq mi), making it the second largest naitonal park in Tasmania. Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park is a national park in the West Coast of Tasmania.
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