Improved facilities at Mt Field National Park Visitor Centre

Construction is under way on a project to improve facilities at the Mt Field National Park Visitor Centre as the park continues to see record visitor numbers.

Tasmania’s world-class natural environment is a key part of the Hodgman Liberal Government’s plan to attract 1.5 million visitors per year by 2020 and recent visitation figures to parks showed 52,000 more visitors in 2014-15 than the previous year.

The Mt Field visitor centre extension will add about 40 square metres of dining and retail floor space to the visitor centre providing an improved function area for the Waterfalls Café at the centre.

The Waterfalls Café proprietors, Rachel and Greg Power, are to be congratulated for providing a quality café and gallery with much improved customer service. This building extension will help to service the demand created by this increased business activity.

Construction has started and is expected to be completed in early December 2015, in time for summer peak visitation period.

Mt Field National Park had record visitation for year ending June 2015 with more than 146,000 visitors recorded. The majority of visitors are on day trips around the visitor centre taking in Great Short Walks such as Russell Falls and the Lady Barron Falls circuit.
Guy Barnett, Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier