Best Parks in Tasmania: MONA Grounds, Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens and the Wild South

Tasmania's parks and reserves are among Australia's most extraordinary, encompassing a quarter of the island under World Heritage and national park protection and offering accessible wilderness of international significance. The Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens on Lower Domain Road in Hobart, directly north of the Government House precinct, is a heritage-listed garden and one of Australia's oldest botanic gardens, with a subantarctic garden, Japanese garden and a winter garden of particular distinction, open daily without charge. The MONA (Museum of Old and New Art) grounds at Moorilla Estate in Berriedale, 12 km north of Hobart by ferry or road, combine a world-class art museum with vineyard parkland and the Moorilla winery in a private estate setting that is open to the public. Mount Wellington (Kunanyi) at 1,271 metres directly behind Hobart is accessible by car or via the Summit Walk from the Fern Tree suburb, with panoramic views across the Derwent Estuary and Tasmania from its rocky summit. The Freycinet Peninsula in the national park on the East Coast has the Wineglass Bay beach and a peninsula circuit walk. Cradle Mountain and the Overland Track are the crown jewels of Tasmanian wilderness. The Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area covers 1.4 million hectares and is a critical global wilderness asset.