Harveydale Campsite

Cradle Country Adventures specialises in small groups, and you travel through spectacular forests with mountain views. You see rivers that abound with trout and platypus. Cradle Country Adventures horse riding you get to ride sensible horses, Clydie x, Percheron x, QH x, Arabs x, etc. Full-day rides are for the more serious rider and you will have plenty of opportunity to challenge yourself and the horse. These rides take in even more of the historic property "Armitstead." Full-day tour at Kimberley $269 per person (5-6 hours in the saddle).

Cradle Country Adventures offers horse-riding tours on 3 beautiful locations: Harveydale (near Birralee), Bakers Beach, and Cradle Mountain. Cradle Mountain tours climb up from our stables in the heart of 'The Vale of Belvoir' to the 'Speeler Plain' where you experience magnificent views of Cradle Mountain, Barn Bluff, The Great Western Tiers and Mount Roland. Tours range from two to five hours including transfers to and from your Cradle Mountain accommodation. Also offering multi day rides through the beautiful Mersey Valley with options of days at both Cradle Mountain and Narawntapu National Parks - beaches, forests and mountains, it's the complete Tasmanian horse-riding experience. Visitors can stay at the accommodation at the shearer's quarters at Kimberley as well as the Bakers Beach homestead as well as dinner and breakfast packages. "The Quarters" and the Bakers Beach homestead are self contained and rooms are either double or twin bed configuration.

Our most popular treks range from two to five days. Here is an example of our very popular three day ride: Day 1 is spent riding through the forests, grazing country and river flats of the beautiful Mersey Valley. This day includes views over the Great Western Tiers, lunch on the banks of the Mersey River, which is home to many Platypus and trouts. The trails offer experienced riders plenty of opportunities to trot and canter. Day 2 is a trip to Narawantapu National Park (Bakers Beach) where you ride through the grasslands that are the feeding grounds for wombats, wallabies, forester kangaroo and numerous other species of our native marsupials. Then it's onto an amazing stretch of pristine beach where we can canter our horses through the shallows and the brave even have the opportunity to swim with their horses. Day 3 is spent riding through the Vale of Belvoir Conservation Area on the Northern boundary of the world famous Cradle Mountain/Lake St Clair World Heritage Area. The views of Cradle Mountain and the surrounding peaks are stunning. Multi-day tour: around $360 per person and per day including horse-riding, all meals and accommodation at the shearers quarters at Kimberley.