Following the river inland from nipaluna / Hobart, the landscape shifts from tidy riverside towns to deep forests, alpine lakes, and roads that feel like they’re leading somewhere properly remote.

This guide brings together 20 things to do across the Derwent Valley, from slow browsing in New Norfolk and long lunches worth planning around, to short walks with big payoffs and drives that end at some of Tasmania’s most impressive engineering and wilderness landscapes. Some experiences take an hour, others take a day, but all of them offer a good reason to linger a little longer in a part of southern Tasmania that often flies under the radar.