Our Walks
Great Walks of Australia is a collection of privately owned multi-day guided walks that highlight Australia’s most premium walking experiences.
All our walks showcase the impressive and diverse walking options we offer across our majestic country. These walks meet a strict selection criteria to become a member. This collection is one of the Signature Experiences of Australia, supported by Tourism Australia.
With coastal, inland and outback trails, these walks cover some of Australia’s more iconic landscapes. The walks offer high levels of service, small walking groups, gourmet food and wine, and exclusive accommodation, ensuring you are treated to the comforts of a luxury holiday but with a sense of adventure in remote wilderness locations.
Each walk is also led by expert guides, giving you a chance to hear the stories behind the place you are exploring, and enabling you to truly reconnect with nature and with yourself, all whilst disconnecting from your everyday life.
At Great Walks of Australia, we live life one step at a time, at walking pace. Come and discover Australia with us.
If you have further questions please check Frequently Asked Questions or drop us a line if you can’t find what you’re looking for.
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Seven Peaks Walk
The Seven Peaks Walk is a stunning hiking experience based out of Pinetrees Lodge on Lord Howe Island. This 6 night, 5 day guided walk covers 45km of trails and peaks climbing, with options available depending on ability and weather conditions. It’s a truly spectacular way to explore a UNESCO World Heritage listed island, only a two hour flight from Sydney.
- Accessed via Flights via Sydney or Brisbane
- Duration: 5 days / 6 nights
- Distance: 45km
- Grade: Moderate to Hard (with options)
- Walk operates: April & May, September - November
- Bush trails, steep sections with ropes, rocks & beaches
- Group size: Max 12
- Rates: From $3766 per person twin share (excluding flights)
Scenic Rim Trail
Launched in 2020, the all new five day Scenic Rim Trail adventure starts in the foothills of South East Queensland’s Main Range National Park, an area famous for its stunning mountains, ridges, escarpments, ancient rainforest and volcanic plateaus. From here, experienced guides lead you through a region that contains more than 30,000 hectares of nature refuges, states forests and national parks.
- Accessed via Brisbane, QLD
- Duration: 5 days / 5 nights
- Distance: 60km
- Grade: Moderate to Hard
- Walk operates: March to November
- Bush trails, rainforest, rocky sections, steep sections on day 2
- Group size: Max 16
- Av. Km per day: 13km
- Rates: From $3,390 per person 5-day twin share or $4890 for a single room
The Arkaba Walk
Traversing the ancient Flinders Ranges and the private Arkaba Nature Conservancy in South Australia, The Arkaba Walk is an experience that immerses you in the story of the land. Adventure through this 63,000 km former sheep station and immerse yourself in a remarkable conservation story, abundant wildlife and the history of the spectacular outback.
- Accessed via Adelaide, SA
- Duration: 4 days / 3 nights
- Distance: 45km
- Grade: Moderate
- Walk operates: March - October
- No fixed trail, rocky terrain (scrambling), open hill country
- Group size: Max 10
- Rates: From AUD $2,400
Murray River Walk
Explore Australia’s greatest river, The Murray, within the internationally recognised Riverland Ramsar Wetland in South Australia. Guided easy walking combined with peaceful cruising immerses you in the landscape and reveals the pioneering history of paddle steamers and a new environmental stewardship.
- Accessed via Adelaide/Renmark, SA
- Duration: 4 days / 3 nights
- Distance: 40km + 70km boat cruising
- Grade: Easy
- Walk operates: May - September
- Mainly flat bush trails
- Group size: Max 10
- Av. Km per day: 10-15km (3 days walking)
- Rates: From AUD $2,500 per person
Bay of Fires Lodge Walk
At the edge of Mt William National Park in north-eastern Tasmania, the magnificent coastline known as the Bay of Fires provides dramatic landscapes, ecology, and wildlife. Immerse yourself in one of the most pristine environments that Tasmania has to offer; walk the soft sandy beaches, explore coves, kayak the Ansons River and enjoy the uncomplicated luxury of accommodation at Forester Beach Camp and the award-winning Bay of Fires Lodge.
- Accessed via Launceston, TAS
- Duration: 4 days / 3 nights
- Distance: 33km
- Grade: Moderate
- Walk operates: October - May
- Mainly beaches and sand walking + bush trails
- Group size: Max 10
- Rates: From AUD $2,420
Cradle Mountain Huts Walk
Discover one of Australia’s most spectacular World Heritage Areas while hiking the world famous Overland Track in the peaceful and exquisite terrain of Cradle Mountain and Lake St Clair National Park, Tasmania. It’s all yours to experience on the Cradle Mountain Huts Walk.
- Accessed via Launceston, TAS
- Duration: 6 days / 5 nights
- Distance: 60km
- Grade: Moderate to Hard
- Walk operates: October – May
- Bush trails, boardwalks, rocky areas, mountains + forests
- Group size: Max 12
- Rates: From AUD $3,380
Freycinet Experience Walk
The Freycinet Experience is the original guided walk on Tasmania’s east coast, taking you through the pink granite Hazard Mountains and rich coastal forests, and the purest of white-sand beaches including the world-renowned Wineglass Bay.
- Accessed via Hobart, TAS
- Duration: 4 days / 3 nights
- Distance: 37km
- Grade: Moderate
- Walk operates: October – April
- Bush trails, beaches and sand walking
- Group size: Max 10
- Rates: From AUD $2,450
The Maria Island Walk
The Maria Island Walk is a fascinating blend of abundant rare wildlife, UNESCO heritage settlement sites, pristine beaches, old eucalyptus forests and incredible geology, all on an island national park just off the East Coast of Tasmania. A multi-award winning walk, guests can look forward to easy to moderate walking with optional side trips to scale impressive mountains and candlelit gourmet dining at night.
- Accessed via Hobart, TAS
- Duration: 4 days / 3 nights
- Distance: 25km - 43km
- Grade: Easy to Moderate
- Walk operates: October – April
- Bush trails with beaches and sand walking
- Group size: Max 10
- Rates: From AUD $2,550
Three Capes Lodge Walk
Experience the sheer exhilaration of walking on the edge of the world! The Three Capes Lodge Walk is a fully-guided, four day walk along Tasmania’s dramatic Tasman Peninsula with the wild Southern Ocean as your constant. If you’re up for thrills, it’s also the best way to see to ‘The Blade’…
- Accessed via Hobart, TAS
- Duration: 4 days / 3 nights
- Distance: 48km
- Grade: Moderate
- Walk operates: Year round
- Boardwalks, stonework & dry trails through forest/bush
- Group size: Max 14
- Av. Km per day: 12km
- Rates: From AUD $2,790 twin share
Twelve Apostles Lodge Walk
Explore the Great Ocean Road coastline on the Twelve Apostles Lodge Walk. This lodge based walk over four days is an incredible way to see the shipwreck coastline and the hidden areas of this iconic landscape on foot.
- Accessed via Melbourne, VIC
- Duration: 4 days / 3 nights
- Distance: 46km
- Grade: Moderate
- Walk operates: September - May
- Trail is open grassland cliffs and beaches
- Group size: Max 10
- Av. Km per day: 15km
- Rates: From AUD $2,285
Cape to Cape Walk
Experience the Margaret River at its finest. Stay in ocean-front luxury whilst enjoying world-class food and wine. Discover the turquoise ocean, white beaches, coastal cliffs and towering karri forest on the Cape to Cape Walk with Walk into Luxury.
- Accessed via Margaret River, WA
- Duration: 4 days / 3 nights
- Distance: 41km
- Grade: Moderate
- Walk operates: Mar to Jun & Sep - Nov
- Trail is a mix of beach walking + cliff top, bush & forest trails
- Group size: Max 12
- Av. Km per day: 6-14km
- Rates: From AUD $2690
Classic Larapinta Trek in Comfort
Soak up the ethereal scenery of vast flood plains, razorback rocky outcrops and the glorious scale of this ancient land, walking the high ridgelines of the West MacDonnell Ranges, led by your guides at Australian Walking Holidays.
- Accessed via Alice Springs, NT
- Duration: 6 days / 5 nights
- Distance: 72km
- Grade: Moderate to Hard
- Walk operates: April – September
- Trail is rugged, rocky, desert and hilly
- Group size: Max 16
- Av. Km per day: 12 - 17km
- Rates: AUD $2,895