The largest national Park Tasmania - South West – occupy the area of 618 hectares in 93 km West of Hobart. It is known for its hard, but amazingly beautiful corners of pristine wildlife. The weather is incredibly changeable and often quite severe. Over the last 25 thousand years the main inhabitants of these places were few aborigines of Tasmania, and the Europeans only occasionally appeared here, which ensured the safety of the territory. Only one road runs through the Park leads down to the town Strathgordon. The southern and Western part of the Park completely inaccessible to any land transport – you can get there only by foot, boat or by air. A small runway for aircraft is tiny settlement of Melaleuca in the South-West of the Park. There are two huts for tourists.

The "core" of this protected area was established in 1955 and was originally called the national Park "Lake Pedder". Over the next 35 years, the Park was expanded and renamed, until it reached its present form in 1990.

Today on the territory of the Park there are two major Hiking trail: Trail Port Davey, starting South of lake Pedder, and the Trail of the southern Coast, leading from the Bay cockle Creek. Both are primarily designed for experienced travelers – for passing on him will take 10 to 14 days. There are more difficult trails, spectacular mountain ranges of the Eastern and Western Arthur range, South-Western Cape and Federation Peak.

For the less experienced tourists will suit routes that take several hours, for example, a road on the plateau ELISA, which offers wonderful views to the mountain and Ann lake, lying in the valley. Or you can go to 8-hour trip to a glacial lake Judd, surrounded by steep cliffs. Before the tourists to see the real original world: rain forests, and thickets of Myrtle trees, magnificent wild flowers and berry bushes. Among this lush splendor, you can see the green of Roselle, the present time, black flute birds known for their loud songs.

They say that it is here, in the South-West national Park, has some of the best fishing spots in Tasmania. In lakes Gordon and Pedder, you can try to catch trout. Another popular fishermen place – Edgar dam-dam near Scotts Peak.