The Overland Track
The Overland Track
Cradle Mountain – Lake St-Clair
Tasmania AU
Introduction
The Overland Track is world renowned and is Australia's
most famous walk – The trail, runs for 73 km across the
Cradle Mountain Lake St Clair National Park. The northern start
is at Waldheim in the north and the southern terminus is at Cynthia
Bay beside Lake St Clair. The track crosses the highest region
of Tasmania passing many of the highest peaks in the state. The
scenery is glacial erosion with many magnificent lakes, cliffs,
cirques and waterfalls. One of the tracks biggest attractions
is that the scenery keeps changing as you pass through the park
- there is a wide variety of landforms and vegetation and every
day is different. The season runs October through May.
The Trail
The trail takes 7 days with many side trip possible i.e.: Cradle
Mountain, Mt-Ossa, the Labyrinth and the Acropolis. The track
has been extensively repaired and has bridges over the streams
and boardwalks across most of the muddy areas. This was once a
very muddy track but is now considered to have mud of boot depth
only - expect some minor mud.
