Coal Mines Historic Site

Really enjoyed it here

Arrived early evening on a nice sunny day. Hardly anyone around, plenty of roos and rabbits. You can take the time to reflect on the treatment here, even having to use vivid imagination with some of t...

Worth a visit

We actually like this place better than port Arthur and it is free to enter. Do the walk up to the signal station and read the history. Very interesting place. Often very quiet too unlike Port Arthur.

Old ruins. Nothing new.

Typical old ruins. Need to use your imagination a LOT to picture what it was like... But well worth the drive regardless.

Relaxed walk with history

Lovely setting to walk through and at the same time learn more about the history of Tasmania and Australia. There's not much left of the buildings but what is left is worth seeing

Recommended

I am not a fan of visiting sites were the English brutally enslaved people however, I did find our visit to the Coal Mines Historic Site interesting. The site is not over developed, and you need to ge...