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Botanical Gardens Circuit

Can park your car: Regatta grounds; CBD; on the Domain.
 
Cross the Memorial Bridge from the cenotaph.
At bottom of Memorial bridge cross a road to the start Soldiers Memorial Avenue. The avenue winds around above the highway. On your right you will see a few buildings. One is the zookeeper’s cottage.
The Soldier Memorial Avenue meanders north. Sun should be ahead of you.
 
Right: The Powder Magazine.
 
Left:  TCA ground and Derwent Athletic Centre. They are both above you and towards the mountain.
 
Just before Soldiers Memorial Ovals is an intersection of tracks.
 
Left track takes you to community playground, public barbeques and public toilets.
 
Right track goes through grasslands gully to the RTBG. The track goes past some shady trees to a road. Cross the road to a little shaded man-made structure. It is at the top of grasslands gully. A track winds down the gully. The track crosses a creek and finishes at a carpark.
The carpark road circles the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens (RTBG).
 
 
At the road turn right. You will arrive at the main gates of RTBG.
The RTBG has very good signs, maps, public toilets and food.
Exit RTBG at lower carpark.
 
Carefully cross the road to the bike track. Follow bike track right. Sun behind. River on your left. Mountain on your right.
 
Left: ANM remnants.
 
Left: Rowing club.
 
Under Tasman Bridge.
 
Long straight stretch of bike track.
 
Left: Powder jetty.
 
Left: TS Derwent
 
Left: Slipyards
 
Left: HMAS Huon.
 
Finish back at Regatta grounds: Cenotaph, Queens battery, Hobart diversion tunnel, John Colvin Stand (public toilets).

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  • Home
  • Community
    • Hadley's Hotel
    • Set in bronze
    • Wooden Boat Festival 2019
    • What do you think of Hobart?
    • Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
    • The Mountain
  • Explore
    • History >
      • Tasmanian Timeline
      • Early Tasmania
      • David Collins
      • Lachlan Macquarie
      • Robert Knopwood
      • Mid Nineteenth Century
      • John Franklin
      • Lady Jane Franklin
      • Late Nineteenth Century
      • 20th Century
      • Convicts
      • Tasmania’s aborigines
      • TT Flynn
      • Charles Darwin visits Hobart
    • Galleries >
      • Places >
        • Constitution Dock
        • Elizabeth St Mall
        • Elizabeth St Pier
        • Franklin Square
        • Hobart GPO
        • Hobart Town Hall
        • Parliament House
        • RHH
        • Salamanca Place
        • St David's Cathedral
        • St David's Park
        • Theatre Royal
        • Victoria Dock
        • Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
        • Kunanyi / Mt Wellington
      • Street art >
        • Street art 1
        • street art 2
        • Street art 3
        • Street art 4
      • Streets >
        • Argyle Street
        • Barrack Street
        • Brisbane Street
        • Bathurst Street
        • Brooker Highway
        • Campbell Street
        • Collins Street
        • Davey Street
        • Elizabeth Street
        • Goulburn Street
        • Harrington Street
        • Hunter Street
        • Liverpool Street
        • Macquarie Street
        • Murray Street
  • about this website
    • about another website
    • Acknowledgement
    • Contact
  • Blog
  • Walking Tours
    • Dave's Walking Tour
    • The Tench Walking Tour
    • Botanical Gardens Circuit
    • ​Alfred’s feeling religious walk
    • Baterry Point Sculpture Trail
    • Lachlan gets to the point
    • Street art: Luffy paints the town