Media release – Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania, 4 February 2021
Have your say on Freycinet Esplanade to Visitor Centre Shared Use Track Project
Public feedback is sought on the proposed construction of the Freycinet Esplanade to Visitor Centre Shared Use Track by the Parks and Wildlife Service (PWS).
The new track will provide a link for pedestrians and bicyclists from the Coles Bay Esplanade East to the Freycinet Visitor Centre.
The proposal includes widening of the existing track from Esplanade East to the Richardsons Beach access track and construction of a new elevated boardwalk across Mosquito Creek.
The new track will improve visitor safety by providing a formal pedestrian and bicyclist link between the Coles Bay Township and the National Park without the need to use Freycinet Drive. It will also provide the long-term capacity to link the planned Coles Bay Foreshore Walk with the Freycinet Walk and Cycle track which was constructed in 2020.
The existing and new track pass through sections of the Coles Bay Conservation Area and the Freycinet National Park.
Extensive natural and cultural values surveys, including assessment of multiple alignment options, were carried out to ensure impacts of the project are minimised as far as possible.
The Australian Government under the National Tourism Icons Program has provided $400,000 funding for the project.
The project is an initiative of the Freycinet Peninsula Master Plan 2019.
To view the Draft Reserve Activity Assessment Document the associated appendices and to make a submission, visit the PWS website ‘Have your Say’ page.
Have your say | Parks & Wildlife Service Tasmania
Feedback closes on 6 March 2022.
