Hobart’s kunanyi/Mt Wellington is Now Wheelchair and Pram Accessible

 

A new 2km accessible trail has made more of Hobart’s bushland and parks available to visitors on wheels at kunanyi/Mt Wellington.

Visitors to Hobart can now experience more of its beautiful bushland and parks, with the opening of a new accessible trail from Waterworks Reserve up into the foothills of kunanyi/Mt Wellington.

The new 2km trail is accessible to prams, wheelchairs, and beginner mountain bikers after an $800,000 upgrade was made to the old trail, funded by the City of Hobart and the Local Government Association of Tasmania.

The trail takes visitors to the Pipe-Head Well heritage feature, towards the Gentle Annie Falls heritage site, and below beautiful sandstone cliffs.

The 2km Waterworks Reserve Pipeline Track extension

The project also exposed a piece of the city’s history, revealing a century old sandstone pipe-head, which was hidden in bushland. 

‘This fabulous new trail is among our most significant recreational track projects in decades and creates a more accessible connection for walkers, trail runners and bike riders between Waterworks Reserve and Wellington Park. It is flat enough and wide enough for families to take their youngest up the new track in a pram’, said Hobart Lord Mayor Anna Reynolds.

‘We’ve also installed new interpretation panels that tell the history of Hobart’s mountain water supply system, how it was built and how it helped save lives by providing clean, fresh water to a growing city in the late 1800s’, she said.

The Waterworks Reserve Pipeline Track extension forms part of the 18km-long Pipeline Track, which follows Hobart’s still-functioning water supply system, first established in the 1860s. The longer trail starts at Fern Tree and finishes at Waterworks Reserve.

The 18km Pipeline Track

Learn more about how to visit at the City of Hobart website.

Images thanks to the City of Hobart