Freycinet National Park Visitor Statistics

Freycinet National Park is located on Tasmania's stunning east coast, featuring pink granite peaks, white sand beaches, and the iconic Wineglass Bay. About 291,000 people visited in the 2025–26 financial year, more than any other park the Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service tracks.¹

Freycinet National Park welcomed about 291,000 visitors in the 2025–26 financial year (July to June), its busiest year since before the pandemic.¹

• Before the pandemic, the park drew 317,000 visitors in 2018–19, its busiest year in this period.²
• Numbers fell 16% to 265,000 in 2019–20 as COVID-19 arrived in early 2020.²
• They held at 265,000 in 2020–21 while travel restrictions stayed in place.¹
• Visits bottomed out at 251,000 in 2021–22, a further 5% drop.¹
• Once travel reopened, the park bounced back 14% to 287,000 in 2022–23.¹
• Visits eased 2% to 281,000 in 2023–24.¹
• They climbed 2% back to 287,000 in 2024–25.¹
• In 2025–26, numbers rose another 1% to 291,000, still about 8% short of the 2018–19 peak.¹

There are no spending figures for the park itself, but Freycinet is the main draw for Tasmania's East Coast, where visitors spent about AUD 461 million in 2024–25, level with the year before.⁴

• Before the pandemic, visitor spending in the region reached AUD 365 million in 2018–19.⁵
• It slipped 5% to AUD 347 million in 2019–20 as COVID-19 hit.⁵
• Spending rose to AUD 399 million in 2020–21, then eased 5% to AUD 379 million in 2021–22.⁵
• It jumped 27% to AUD 479 million in 2022–23, the highest in the series.⁵
• In 2023–24 it fell 12% to AUD 421 million.⁵
• Tourism Research Australia has since revised its method. On the new basis, spending was AUD 463 million in 2023–24 and AUD 461 million in 2024–25.⁴

Wineglass Bay is the main reason people come to Freycinet. Tasmania Parks' visitor surveys found that seeing the bay was visitors' prime reason for coming, and a summer 2002–03 exit survey found 68% of the park's then 200,000 visitors, about 136,000 people, walked to the lookout.⁷ No newer counts for individual sites are published.

• Wineglass Bay Lookout: a 2.6 km return walk taking 1 to 1.5 hours, with short steep sections and many steps.⁸
• Wineglass Bay Beach: voted Australia's #1 beach in 2024 (Nine Network poll).⁹
• The Hazards: the granite range behind Coles Bay, made up of Mt Parsons (331 m), Mt Dove (485 m), Mt Amos (445 m) and Mt Mayson (420 m).⁷
• Honeymoon Bay: tent-only campsites on a granite knoll overlooking the bay, open only over the summer holidays and at Easter.¹⁰
• Cape Tourville Lighthouse: an easy 600 m, 20-minute circuit, much of it on a raised boardwalk, with views of the Hazards, Wineglass Bay and The Nuggets. It suits wheelchair users who have someone to assist them.¹¹

Summer is Freycinet's busiest time. Demand for the park's campsites is high enough that Tasmania Parks allocates them by ballot for the summer season, 18 December to 10 February, and for Easter.¹⁰

• Across Tasmania, 494,300 visitors arrived in the January to March quarter of 2026, a record for that quarter and about 35% of the year's 1.404 million.³
• To avoid the crowds, visit outside the summer holidays and Easter. Outside the ballot period, campsites can be booked through the Freycinet visitor centre.¹⁰
• Outside summer there are other draws: humpback whales are regularly seen off the peninsula in the winter months.¹²