Overland Track

Tasmania's great walk, south through the Cradle Mountain–Lake St Clair reserve. The track crosses buttongrass moor and myrtle rainforest under dolerite peaks, past glacial lakes left by the last ice age, and finishes along the shore of Lake St Clair — the deepest lake in Australia. [Route details] Start: Ronny Creek, Cradle Mountain · End: Cynthia Bay, Lake St Clair 77.6 km · north to south · 735 m to 1,274 m Six nights, one hut a day [The huts] - Waterfall Valley 10.7 km · Windermere 18.1 km · New Pelion 33.1 km - Pelion Gap 37.5 km — where the side tracks to Mount Ossa and Pelion East leave - Kia Ora 41.5 km · Bert Nichols 51.1 km · Narcissus 61.1 km [Good to know] - Booked and one-way north to south from October to May; numbers are capped daily. - The last 16 km along Lake St Clair from Narcissus is included here. Most walkers take the ferry instead, which is why the walk is often quoted at 65 km. - Elevation is sampled from a terrain model, not recorded on the ground.