Cradle Mountain Huts & Bay of Fires Walk - Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area is recognized as a wilderness area of outstanding world value. It is one of the last few remaining temperate wilderness areas in the world and is best compared to the other two southern hemisphere sites - South West New Zealand and Los Glaciares in Argentina. All these are rugged glaciated mountainous regions, unique yet united in the evolutionary history of the ancient super continent Gondwana, displaying strong floristic and faunal links and providing evidence of past continental formations and environments. At 1.38 million hectares, the World Heritage Area is one of the largest and most important reserves. Natural values of international significance include extensively glaciated landscapes, pristine catchments, a profusion of threatened rare and endemic plants, a complex mosaic of vegetation - moorland, rainforest, alpine, eucalypt and riparian communities, undisturbed stands of millenia old endemic pines, a collection of the world's largest carnivorous marsupials (Tasmanian devils and quolls), and two of the only three surviving species of monotremes - the most primitive group of mammals in the world (platypus and echidna). In the mountainous heart of this amazing area, Cradle Huts has built five comfortable, well-appointed huts. Hidden in forest along the Overland Track, they are the only private huts allowed in the area. We believe that it is a special privilege to operate in this delicate and immensely important environment, so we observe minimal-impact track and hut practices. We tread lightly and leave nothing and our huts are designed to be ecologically sustainable. Services are non-polluting and self- contained and we use careful waste management practices. This minimal-impact use of the wilderness means that the values of this fragile environment are preserved for the future, while enabling it to be enjoyed and understood now by a small number of people. Also offering Bay of Fires.

Cradle Mountain Huts & Bay of Fires Walk

Tasmania, Australia