Mole Creek Caves

Summer or winter, the climate never changes inside the Mole Creek Caves, so it's a perfect place to visit year round. Temperature is 9 degrees, so bring warm clothing and comfortable walking shoes. The interpretive tours last 45 minutes and are conducted every day of the year, except Christmas Day.

Marakoopa Cave

This highly decorated cave offers two different tours -

• Underground Rivers and Glow-worms Tour (10 am, 12 noon and 2 pm daily, plus 4.00 pm from 1 Oct - 31 May)
  Visit the lower chamber with its sparkling crystals, reflection pools, stalactites and stalagmites. Take time to listen to the underground streams as you wander down abandoned river passages. This easy tour caters for all age groups and levels of fitness.


• Great Cathedral and Glow-worms Tour (11 am, 1 pm and 3 pm daily)
  The large cavern known as the 'Great Cathedral' is a highlight not to be missed. The Gardens' feature delicate formations and beautiful colours. Medium fitness levels are required for this tour, to ascend the stairway to the 'Great Cathedral'.

Be sure to allow yourself 15 minutes to enjoy the enchanting Fern Glade Walk from the ticket office parking area to the cave entrance.

King Solomons Cave

Tours 11.30 am, 12.30 pm, 2.30 pm and 3.30 pm daily, plus 4.30 pm from 1 Dec - 30 Apr.

This compact cave offers lavish colours and formations, with sparkling calcite decorating the chambers.

For more information, call 03 6363 5182 or visit Parks & Wildlife Service Tasmania website here.

Listen to Paul Flood talking about the Mole Creek Caves

The Mole Creek Caves are some of the places to visit along the Great Caves Cycling Trail and you can listen to Parks and Wildlife officer Paul Flood talking about Mole Creek Caves and about the Mole Creek Karst system on these podcasts. The Great Western Tiers Cycle Trails, including these podcasts, are an initiative of Meander Valley Council and the Great Western Tiers Tourism Association, supported by Tourism Tasmania.

Other caving adventures

See also Wild Caves Tours on our Attractions page, catering for those who would like a guided tour through the undeveloped, or 'wild', caves of the Mole Creek karst.

Our thanks to Paul Flood for these wonderful images