Photographs courtesy of Tourism Tasmania, Kathryn Leahy & Kelly Slater.

Sheffield

Art galleries, murals, rural shopping, restaurants and café’s, honey farm, and more.

Things to do

Sheffield is a quirky rural town where history and art merge on town walls in the form of murals. In the 1980s, a small committee decided to paint a mural next to the town’s public toilet to encourage bus tours to Cradle Mountain. Their hope was the mural would encourage tourists to walk around the town’s Main Street to shop and get a bite to eat.

Now almost forty years later, Sheffield is known as Australia’s ‘Town of Murals’, and visitors come worldwide to see the over 100 larger-than-life murals that cover the town’s walls. Sheffield is at the centre of the North-West’s outdoor adventure playground where tourists can find their flow on Wild Mersey, hike the mighty Mount Roland, kayak Lake Barrington, and chase waterfalls in the bush. Visitors can indulge in some of the freshest products in Australia, grown in the country’s richest soil and freshest air, while in Sheffield by booking farm stays, joining Chef-guided tours, or driving along with the Cradle to Coast Tasting Trail.

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Local attractions

Anvers Chocolates – Factory and Café

Café open daily, or taste and buy from the Anvers Confectionery range and Chocolate Shop.
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Cradle Mountain

Cradle Mountain and the Lake St Clair National Park) – Tasmania’s iconic wilderness destination.
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Beer garden

The cellar door offers up to five beers for tasting and by the glass, plus seasonal brews and limited release reserves.
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Horse Riding tours

Experience horse-riding at Kimberley (near Sheffield), Bakers Beach, or Cradle Mountain.
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