Tasmanian River Guides

The links below are to Tasmanian river sections I have paddled. Information on significantly more river sections, including more technical info, can be found at wikiriver.com. When planning trips, you should also be aware of prohibited zones.

• Ansons River – Bottleneck Ford to Ansons Bay (flat water / 4km)

• Collingwood River – Lyell Hwy to Franklin Confluence (Grade 2-3 / 6km)

• Crossing and Davey Rivers (Grade 3 / 40km)

• Denison River – Lake Gordon to Heritage Landing (Grade 3 / 90km)

• Derwent River – Meadowbank to Big Bend (Grade 2 / 24km)

• Derwent River – Big Bend to Railway Bridge (Grade 2 / 12km)

• Derwent River – Railway Bridge (Plenty) to New Norfolk (Grade 1 / 8.2km)

• Forth River – Cethana Bridge to Lake Barrington (flat water / 6.5km)

• Franklin River – Franklin River Nature Trail to Frenchmans Cap Suspension Bridge (Grade 2 / 4.5km)

• Franklin River – Eagle Creek Track to Gordon Confluence (Grade 2 / 22km)

• Gordon River – Denison Confluence to Heritage Landing (Grade 2 / 55km)

• Gordon River – Franklin Confluence to Sir John Falls (flat water / 6km)

• Gordon River – Heritage Landing to Eagle Creek (flat water / 7km)

• Huon River – Tahune Bridge to Southwood Bridge (Grade 1-2 / 11km)

• Huon River – Southwood Bridge to Judbury (Grade 2 / 16km)

• Huon River – Judbury to Huonville (Grade 2 / 14.6km)

• Huskisson River (Grade 2 / 23km)

• Meander River – Meander Dam to Meander (Grade 3 / 7km)

• Picton River – Riveaux Rd Bridge to Tahune Bridge (Grade 3 / 4km) [at 0.2m / at 0.3m]

• Scamander River (flat water / 16km)

• South Esk River – Upper Esk (Grade 1-2 / 6km)

• South Esk River – Sandhurst Road to Mathinna Plains Road (Grade 1 / 9km)

• South Esk River – Leona Rd to Avoca (Grade 1 / 7.5km)

• South Esk River – Avoca to Hanleth (Grade 1 / 13km)

• South Esk River – Hanleth to Llewellyn (Grade 1 / 6km)

• Styx River – Jacques Road to Styx River Bridge (Grade 2 / 13 km)

• Wilson River (Grade 2)

In addition to the above, I am slowly populating the below map with river sections that are mostly grade 2 (i.e. ones I want to do).

Key:

• Purple sections are day trips I’m yet to do;

• Yellow sections are day trips I have done;

• Orange sections are multi-day trips I’m yet to do; and

• Blue sections are multi-day trips I have done.

Clicking on the segments gives additional info, in some cases including links to the relevant Paddle About Tasmania river guides. In other cases it is noted that additional info can be found in the Tarkine Trails app ( App Store / Google Play Store).

Outside Tasmania

While most of my paddling has been within Tasmania, I’ll record river sections I’ve done outside of Tasmania below:

• Shoalhaven River – Oallen Ford to Ningee Nimble Creek (NSW) (Gade 2 / 5.5km)