WALLS OF JERUSALEM NATIONAL PARK
QUICK FACTS
State Tasmania
Activity Hike
Total distance 34 kilometres circuit
Total estimated time 2-3 days
Difficulty 2
Nearest accommodation Mole Creek
GPS - Mersey Forest Road car park-41.776 S 146.231 E
Elevation climbed 1436m
Required maps Tasmap - Walls of Jerusalem 1:25 000
Cost or permit National Parks Pass
SUMMARY OF HIKE
Mersey Forest Rd car park - Wild Dog Ck campsite: 2-3 hrs
Wild Dog Creek campsite - Dixons Kingdom: 2 hrs
Dixons Kingdom - Mersey Forest Rd car park
via Lake Adelaide: 6-8 hrs
Forming part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage area, Walls of Jerusalem National Park was proclaimed in 1981. It followed a decade of pressure to recognise and protect the conservation of Tasmania’s central high country. However, the region was first formally surveyed in the 1840s, with many features still bearing the original survey names, including Wild Dog Creek, Lake Adelaide and Bluff Point. Bushwalking became popular from the 1920s onwards, with recreational users sharing the area with possum trappers and cattle graziers. Today the cattle are gone but the possums most definitely remain, along with
