Easy hikes and walks in Rosny Hill Nature Recreation Area

Legacy Park is a public park blending open-air family recreation with play areas, community spaces, and walking paths like Max's Infinity Loop. There are toilets, barbecues, covered picnic benches, sandpits and beautiful sculptures of tall red poppies to memorialise fallen soldiers, along with an entry to Soldiers Memorial Avenue.

The Soldiers Memorial Oval, also known as the Crossroads Oval, is a sports pitch encompassed by Soldiers Memorial Avenue. The oval is equipped with lighting and amenities for day and evening use, also serves as the home base for the Hobart Dog Obedience Club.

Soldiers Memorial Avenue is a historic track of honour originally established between 1918 and 1919 to commemorate soldiers who lost their lives in World War I. While exploring the avenue look for over 520 individually named trees, primarily Himalayan and Atlantic Cedars. Each tree serves as a living monument dedicated to a fallen service member.

The Henry Jones Art Hotel occupies a row of historic sandstone warehouses on Hunter Street dating from the early 1800s, the former site of the IXL jam factory. Henry Jones, the son of convict parents, started working at the factory at age 12 and eventually built one of Tasmania’s largest and most successful businesses before the factory closed in 1979. In 2004, architects transformed the buildings into Australia’s first dedicated art hotel, preserving the original sandstone walls, vaulted timber ceilings and factory machinery as part of the design. Over 400 works by Tasmanian artists are displayed throughout, and the IXL Long Bar, with its backdrop of original jam tins lining the walls, is one of the most distinctive spots in Hobart.

Narryna is a Georgian merchant’s townhouse built between 1835 and 1840 for Captain Andrew Haig, a merchant who traded between Hobart, Asia, and South America. Haig later built warehouses facing Salamanca Place and established a successful trading business before financial difficulties forced him to sell the property in 1842. Today, Narryna is a community museum managed by the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, with collections of 19th-century furniture, decorative arts and costume that tell the story of early colonial life in Hobart. The house is surrounded by a beautiful Georgian garden and is open Tuesday to Saturday.

Anglesea Barracks is Australia’s oldest military establishment still in use. Governor Lachlan Macquarie selected the site in 1811, and it has been continuously occupied ever since, with its bicentenary celebrated in December 2011. The precinct includes the Guard House, Military Hospital, two-storey Soldiers’ Barracks, Drill Hall, and Australia’s only surviving nineteenth-century military prison. It’s included on the Commonwealth Heritage List and is regarded as one of Australia’s most significant historical military precincts, home today to the Army Museum of Tasmania.

From here, you can look out over the Derwent River, with yachts anchored on the water and the low hills of the eastern shore stretching across the horizon. The working harbour sits below, with the river widening beyond it toward the hills, giving you a beautiful view across this part of Hobart’s waterfront.

Battery Point is one of Australia’s best-preserved colonial precincts, with a notable concentration of Georgian and Victorian buildings dating from the 19th century. The winding streets are lined with sandstone cottages, mariners’ dwellings, grand merchants’ houses and terrace rows, with St George’s Anglican Church, built between 1836 and 1838, as a prominent landmark designed in part by convict architect James Blackburn. At the centre of it all is Arthur Circus, a ring of historic cottages surrounding a small village green that gives this part of Battery Point the feel of a traditional English village.