Parking
Start at Honeymoon Bay car park. A valid Tasmanian parks pass is required for national-park entry.
Overview
About Honeymoon Bay to Parsons Cove
Why go
- A beach finish at a sheltered cove with granite rocks and a rock jetty.
- A mostly gentle shared path links the bay and the cove access.
Heads up
- The shared track has cyclists and road crossings, followed by a local-road approach.
- The short final beach approach is outside the mapped line, and distance estimates vary slightly.
Map & elevation
The route
Plan your hike
Before you go
Parking
Safety
The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Freycinet Tour Guide
Your drive to Honeymoon Bay to Parsons Cove, narrated.
Parkwolf is a GPS audio tour guide for Freycinet National Park. As you drive, it chimes in with what’s ahead: hidden gems, upcoming stops, history, geology, and wildlife, right through your car’s speakers.
Recorded for this trailhead
Honeymoon Bay0:00 / 0:26
“Honeymoon Bay is coming up, a tiny pocket of sand among pink-grey granite, with the Hazards rising behind it. Stop here for a swim or snorkel in the sheltered cove, rather than a long beach walk.”
Plays as you drive up to this trailhead in the Parkwolf Freycinet Tour Guide.
More stories near here in the app
- Freycinet Lodge Dining
- Wineglass Bay Walking Tracks
- Visitor Centre, Ranger Creek and Richardsons Beach
- Sleepy Bay and Little Gravelly Beach
- 24 audio storiesacross Freycinet’s roads, triggered by GPS as you drive
- Wildlife heatmapsfor Wombat, Echidna, Red-necked Wallaby, and 13 more
- Works offlinemaps, 21 trails, 29 places, and audio download before you lose signal
- CarPlay readysimple controls built for the drive
“Fantastic app with many points of information… It’s great to just turn on while you’re driving and it gives you an audio tour of the national Park. We love it!!!!”
Trail guide
Hiking Honeymoon Bay to Parsons Cove
The routePlan for about 3.8 miles (6.1 km) from Honeymoon Bay to Parsons Cove and back; allow roughly 1.
Plan for about 3.8 miles (6.1 km) from Honeymoon Bay to Parsons Cove and back; allow roughly 1.5–2 hours. The map traces the outward corridor once, while the stated length includes the return. From Honeymoon Bay car park, follow the shared-use path toward the Wineglass Bay walking-tracks car park, then continue by local-road access toward the cove. Parsons Cove beach is the payoff; turn around there and retrace your route. The mapped line ends near the beach access, leaving a short final approach on foot.
Path and accessThe shared section follows a compacted path through coastal heath and woodland.
The shared section follows a compacted path through coastal heath and woodland. It has a generally gentle grade with small rises, but it is not an uninterrupted footpath: the route includes road crossings and a local-road approach. Cyclists also use the shared path, so keep left and follow crossing signs; cyclists are expected to give way to walkers.
At the coveParsons Cove has a curved sandy beach, low granite rocks and a short L-shaped rock jetty…
Parsons Cove has a curved sandy beach, low granite rocks and a short L-shaped rock jetty against a wooded shore. The mapped endpoint is about 60 metres from the beach reference point, so the last part of the visit is not shown in the route line. Facilities at the cove itself were not verified.
Before you goA valid Tasmanian parks pass is required.
A valid Tasmanian parks pass is required. Toilets are available at Honeymoon Bay and the Walking Tracks Car Park along the route. Ordinary pets are not permitted in Tasmania’s national parks; assistance dogs are allowed. Published round-trip estimates differ slightly; the mapped line is about 2.8 km one way, while the listings imply roughly 3.1 km each way, so treat the distance as approximate.
Wildlife
Wildlife in Freycinet
27 sightingsWombatMost seen around 7 PMSighting map
35 sightingsEchidnaMost seen around 6 PMSighting map
358 sightingsRed-necked WallabyMost seen around 6 PMSighting map
17 sightingsPademelonMost seen around 7 PMSighting map
27 sightingsWhite-bellied Sea-EagleMost seen around 5 PMSighting map
50 sightingsKookaburraMost seen around 7 AMSighting mapSighting maps show where each species has been reported across Freycinet. Wildlife moves, so no sighting is guaranteed.
