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A walkway in the canopy
The Tahune Airwalk opened in July 2001 in the forest of the Huon Valley, south of Hobart. Its steel walkway runs for 619 metres, about 30 metres above the forest floor, and ends at a cantilevered platform some 50 metres above the Huon River.
Where two rivers meet
From the platform you look down on the meeting of the Huon and Picton rivers, whose water rises in the wilderness of the south-west, and out to the mountains of the World Heritage Area. Two swinging bridges cross the rivers on the walking track below.
Fire and recovery
In January 2019 a bushfire started by dry lightning burned through the Huon Valley. More than 300 visitors were evacuated from Tahune, and the forest around the Airwalk burned, though the walkway itself was not damaged. After a year of repairs, with tracks rebuilt and more than 8,000 native plants put in, the site reopened on 28 February 2020.
