Queenstown Oval, Queenstown

Name: Queenstown Oval
Address: Queenstown, Australia

#4 among attractions in Queenstown

Sport, Sport venue

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Queenstown Oval, known colloquially as The Gravel or The Rec, is a sports arena in Queenstown, located on the west coast of Tasmania. Built in 1895, it is infamous for its gravel playing surface, and is used primarily for Australian rules football, while also hosting cricket and athletics. The ground has a main concrete grandstand and a total capacity of 5,000. ()

Opened: 1895 (129 years ago)Coordinates: 42°4'33"S, 145°33'32"E

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Day trips

Queenstown Oval – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Lake Burbury, Galley Museum, Mount Huxley, Mount Lyell.

5.9 miSE
Nature, Lake
Lake Burbury
152 min walk • Lake Burbury is a man-made water reservoir created by the Crotty Dam inundating the upper King River valley that lies east of the West Coast Range.
~1090 ftSW
Specialty museum, Museum
Galley Museum, Queenstown
6 min walk • The Eric Thomas Galley Museum is a photographic and general museum in Driffield Street in Queenstown. One of two west coast Tasmania museums that house records and relics from the mining communities of the past, the museum is housed in a former 1897 constructed Imperial Hotel, which has also been a mining office and Youth Hostel.
4.8 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Huxley
123 min walk • Mount Huxley is a mountain located on the West Coast Range in the West Coast region of Tasmania, Australia. With an elevation of 926 metres above sea level, the mountain was named by Charles Gould in 1863 in honour of Professor Thomas Henry Huxley.
3.3 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Lyell
85 min walk • Mount Lyell is a mountain in the West Coast Range of Western Tasmania, Australia. Mount Lyell has an elevation of 917 metres above sea level. The adjacent mountains are Mount Sedgwick to the north and Mount Owen to the south. The mountain was named by Charles Gould in 1863 after geologist Charles Lyell, a supporter of Charles Darwin.
2.3 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Owen
60 min walk • Mount Owen is a mountain directly east of the town of Queenstown on the West Coast Range in Western Tasmania, Australia. With an elevation of 1,146 metres above sea level, like most of the mountains in the West Coast Range, it was named by the geologist Charles Gould after Richard Owen.
5.9 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Sedgwick
150 min walk • Mount Sedgwick is a mountain located within the West Coast Range, in the West Coast region of Tasmania, Australia. It lies in line behind Mount Lyell in views from high points in Queenstown and from the roads leading out to Strahan and Zeehan.
5.4 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Lake Margaret
138 min walk • Lake Margaret is a concrete-faced gravity dam with an uncontrolled spillway across the Yolande River, located on the north side of Mount Sedgwick, in the West Coast Range, West Coast of Tasmania, Australia.
5.4 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Lake Beatrice
138 min walk • Lake Beatrice is a 55-hectare natural lake on the lower eastern side of Mount Sedgwick in the West Coast Range of Western Tasmania, Australia.
~1740 ftS
Neighbourhood
Queenstown Post Office, Queenstown
9 min walk • Queenstown Post Office is a heritage-listed post office at 32-34 Orr Street, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia. It was designed by the Tasmanian government's Public Works Office and built in 1902, with the tower added in 1909. It was added to the Australian Commonwealth Heritage List on 22 June 2004.