Devils Gullet

Devils Gullet is a dramatic cliff-top lookout in Mersey Forest within the Meander Valley municipality of northern Tasmania, on the edge of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. Perched above a sheer 300-metre dolerite cliff, it offers expansive views over the Fisher River valley and surrounding Central Highlands. Accessed via a short boardwalk from a remote gravel road, it is notable for its wilderness setting and panoramic alpine scenery.

Visitors can expect a remote alpine lookout reached by a short elevated boardwalk and stairs from a gravel car park to a fenced viewing platform on the cliff edge. The platform provides uninterrupted panoramic views over the Fisher River gorge, forested valley floor, and distant peaks of the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair and Walls of Jerusalem National Parks. The setting is exposed, windswept and largely natural with interpretive signage, with no shops or built visitor centre at the site itself.

Located on the margin of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area inscribed in 1982 for its outstanding natural values. The broader Central Highlands area has a history of Aboriginal occupation and later European exploration, forestry and hydro-electric investigation, with the lookout developed to provide public access to the wilderness escarpment.

Situated within the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area which is recognised for its natural values and Aboriginal cultural landscape. The Central Highlands region holds ongoing cultural significance for Tasmanian Aboriginal people.