One base, the whole coast
Accommodation on Tasmania's West Coast
The West Coast is bigger than it looks on a map and the driving is slower than you expect. The single best decision you can make is picking one base and running days out from it.
- Strahan40 minutes
- Queenstown30 minutes
- Cradle Mountain1 hour
Photograph: Kim Dunstan
Being straight with you
Why one base beats four
A common West Coast plan books a different town every night. It looks efficient and it is not: you spend the trip packing, checking in and driving at dusk on roads with wildlife on them.
Zeehan sits close enough to everything to make a single base workable. Strahan is 40 minutes, Queenstown 30, the Tarkine 40, the wild coast at Trial and Granville Harbour 30, and Cradle Mountain about an hour.
That is 4 completely different days out of one room, without repacking, and without paying peak village rates for the privilege.
Breakfast opens at 5am, every day
Days out on this coast start early. Breakfast opens at 5am every day, which is the thing that makes an ambitious itinerary comfortable.
Nearby
What is within an hour
- Strahan and the Gordon River cruise, 40 minutes.
- Queenstown and the Wilderness Railway, 30 minutes.
- The Tarkine and the Corinna turnoff, 40 minutes.
- Trial Harbour and Granville Harbour, 30 minutes.
- Cradle Mountain, about an hour.
- Montezuma Falls, 35 minutes.
Stay the night at the Heemskirk
One room, one car park, and the whole West Coast inside an hour.