Great Walks

Great Walks is packed with gear guides, product reviews, advice on the best travel destinations, inspiring real-life accounts from seasoned walkers and practical information on specific walks and their accompanying maps. From features on the country’s best bushwalks to reviews of the latest outdoor gear, Great Walks is about discovering our amazing national parks and coastline – anywhere where there’s a walking track. Filled with lush photos, detailed walk notes and aspirational overseas destinations, Great Walks is designed to entertain and inspire.

Great Walks

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FUNNY BUSINESS • Gerda Opperman has a belly full of laughs on the Abel Tasman Coast Track.

MOUNTAIN MAGIC • There are many reasons why the Overland Track is Australia’s most famous multi-day bushwalk.

WILLING AND ABEL • Great Walks takes on some of Tassie’s famed, and frequently challenging, Abels – mountain peaks of over 1100m high.

PEAK PERFORMANCE • Great Walks learns the meaning of hard yakka climbing Tassie’s Western Arthurs via the lesser-known Western Portal.

PICTURE PERFECT • Great Walks readers send us their best bushwalking snaps.

WALKING IN COMFORT • These Tassie tour operators will show you the very best of the Apple Isle – and they’ll throw in plenty of creature comforts along the way.

BIG DAY OUT • Tassie has more great day walks than you can poke a walking stick at. Here are our 10 favourites.

CAPES, COASTLINE & CONVICTS • On the Three Capes Track, Great Walks discovers a magnificent trail and the compelling story of an outlaw who put the place on the map.

QUEENSLAND’S WALKABLE WRECKS • Great Walks explores six plane crash sites in Qld and learns a lot about tragedy, survival and heroism.

COMFORT FACTOR • Taking on the Portuguese Coastal Camino doesn’t have to mean days of suffering; however blisters wait for no one.

SPANISH STEPS • Spain’s Andalucian Coast to Coast Walk leads you through hilltop villages, past archaeological sites, through deep gorges and over high passes.

COAST WITH THE MOST • Walk the Yorke on SA’s Yorke Peninsula’s showcases the area’s spectacular coastline, diverse coastal communities, and excellent food and wine.

TOP GEAR FOR TASSIE • Heading to a hike on the Apple Isle? This range of gear will get you there and back safely.

FREEZE FRAME • Two Wilderness Photographer of the Year judges offer their best advice.

BY THE BOOK • Let these great travel guides and novels inspire your next trip.

WATERFALLS GALORE • Springbrook NP’s waterfalls flow within a wonderland of World Heritagelisted rainforest.

WALKING WITH THE DEAD • Trace the steps of historic funeral processions through epic landscapes on Scotland’s ancient coffin roads.

TIMELESS TESTIMONY • Henry David Thoreau’s 1854 book Walden still rings true about the importance of exploring nature.