The place behind the visit.

The Tahune Airwalk opened in July 2001 in the forest about 29 kilometres from Geeveston. The steel walkway runs for 619 metres through the canopy and ends at a cantilever some 50 metres above the Huon River.

In 2016 Forestry Tasmania, the state forestry body, sold the Airwalk business, and Tahune is now privately run.

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The forest at Tahune is wet eucalypt forest, with tall swamp gums and stringybarks above myrtle beech, sassafras and leatherwood. The Huon Pine Walk passes a stand of Huon pines beside the river.

The Swinging Bridges Track passes the ruins of the house of Francis McPartlan, a police constable and former Irish convict, whose duty was to walk the trail to the Arthur Range to check timber licences. This page reports these details from Tahune’s own account and from a general reference; it does not add claims of its own.

After the bushfire of January 2019 the site closed for about a year. Tracks were rebuilt, the Airwalk was given a new entrance and exit, and the forest is growing back.

This history belongs to the place and the people who shaped it. The History page offers a longer introduction, and the timeline gives a short route through selected milestones.

• Read the history of the Airwalk→
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