Everywhere in the Southern Midlands is an easy day trip from Hobart, but why not spend a few days in our rural landscape exploring our towns and villages. Each has something unique to offer, with stories of convicts, bushrangers, and colonial settlers, fabulous dining experiences, wonderful shopping opportunities, accommodations with loads of character, all kinds of things to do and see, plus markets, events, and festivals.

• Play Skulduggery at Oatlands and solve a mystery over 130 years old
• Take a self-guided walk through town with Stories from the Sandstone  what do those stone walls reveal?
• Enjoy whisky and gin distilleries at Pontville and Kempton
• Shop for antiques at Oatlands and Kempton
• Explore historic estates at Pontville
• Take a tour to the very top of a working Lincolnshire tower mill at Oatlands
• Sheep racing? That’s right! Every February at the Kempton Festival