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Cascades Female Factory – Mawson's Huts Replica Museum loop from Hobart

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Tasmania

Cascades Female Factory – Mawson's Huts Replica Museum loop from Hobart

Hard

5.0

(2)

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Cascades Female Factory – Mawson's Huts Replica Museum loop from Hobart

02:23

31.7km

600m

Cycling

Hard bike ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: May 21, 2026

Tips

Cycling is not permitted along parts of this route

After 5.48 km for 243 m

After 26.1 km for 79 m

Waypoints

Start point

Bus stop

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3.20 km

Cascades Female Factory

Highlight • Historical Site

The Cascades Female Factory is the most significant site in Australia linked to female convicts, offering insight into a part of history that’s often overlooked. Set along the Hobart Rivulet Track, the preserved yards and ruins help explain how women and children lived here during the colonial period. It’s one of eleven locations included in the Australian Convict Sites World Heritage listing. Entry to the site requires a ticket, with interpretive displays and facilities available on site.

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3.62 km

Cascade Gardens

Highlight • Rest Area

Cascade Gardens is a spacious, green park at the base of kunanyi / Mount Wellington, set around the Hobart Rivulet. Wide lawns, mature trees, and the sound of running water make it a calm place to spend time. There are picnic tables, barbecues, toilets, and a playground, with flat, easy paths throughout. It’s one of the more relaxed spots in Hobart, with plenty of space to spread out.

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26.2 km

Cascade Brewery

Highlight • Pub

Classic Tasmanian Brewery.

Their hot cider is a treat on those cold Hobart evenings...

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28.9 km

Hobart Rivulet Track

Highlight (Segment) • Trail

The Hobart Rivulet Track follows the water upstream from the city towards kunanyi / Mount Wellington, with a steady, mostly gentle incline. It’s a wide, shared path suitable for walking, cycling, and dogs on lead. Along the way, keep an eye on the water for platypus, which are known to live here.

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30.0 km

Hadley's Orient Hotel

Highlight • Restaurant

Hotel where famed arctic explorer Roald Amundsen stayed when he returned to Hobart.

Also frequented by Errol Flynn.

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30.4 km

Mawson's Huts Replica Museum

Highlight • Monument

A beautiful monument to the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, the Mawson’s Huts Replica Museum is, as its name implies, an exact reconstruction of the main research hut built in 1911 on Cape Dension by members of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, lead by famed Australian geologist, explorer, and academic, Sir Douglas Mawson.

The expedition – made up of Mawson, Lieutenant Belgrave Edward Ninnis, and Xavier Mertz – met with disaster on December 14, 1912, during a survey of the largely uncharted Victoria Land when Ninnis' sledge plunged through a crevasse, never to be recovered. With most of the expedition’s supplies, as well as its strongest sled dogs, lost, and over 300 miles away from base camp, Mawson and Mertz rationed their meager supplies and headed back, resorting to eating the remaining sled dogs as they went. Mertz ultimately succumbed to starvation, dysentery, and frostbite, forcing Mawson to carry on alone.

On February 8, 1913, Mawson – near-death, skin literally peeling off of his body – stumbled into base camp. Only six hours before, the ship Aurora had departed Cape Denison after failing to locate Mawson and his team. A relief party of six men stayed behind and nursed Mawson back to health, and the weary explorer was forced to spend another winter on the cape.

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30.6 km

Hobart Bike Hire

Highlight • Rest Area

Ryan was super helpful. Easy to book online. The gravel bike was an awesome bike. located a short walk from the dock.

hobartbikehire.com.au

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31.7 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

11.2 km

9.16 km

6.47 km

2.87 km

1.60 km

342 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

21.2 km

4.34 km

3.79 km

2.17 km

187 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Highest point (520 m)

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Tuesday 26 May

14°C

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96 %

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Cascades Female Factory

Cascade Gardens

Cascade Brewery

Hobart Rivulet Track

Hadley's Orient Hotel

Mawson's Huts Replica Museum

Hobart Bike Hire

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