There are nineteen national parks in Tasmania, showing some of the finest landscapes Tasmania has to offer. Unlike Tasmania's mainland cousins (namely New South Wales and Queensland), national parks are often reserved for the finest nationally significant areas, with eight parks being a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Tasmania may be Australia's smallest state, but the state has a lot to offer in terms of nature and scenery. National parks in Tasmania account for about 14,680 km2 (5,670 sq mi), which may not seem much compared to other jurisdictions, the entire area of Tasmania is only 68,401 km2 (26,410 sq mi), meaning that national parks in Tasmania account for a good 21.5% of the entire state. What more, unlike New South Wales or Queensland, Tasmania's national parks are only designated for the finest landscapes, meeting international standards, which not all parks in NSW or Qld fulfill. The state generally has quite a variety of parks to offer, from coastal parks, to marine parks, to mountainous parks, and caves etc., and to that of most interests. The mountain parks (particularly the ones in the west) are generally the ones that get most interstate or international visitors, mostly due to the fact that most of them are part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, one of only two places in the entire world to fulfill seven out of the ten criterion needed to be a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Nevertheless, the parks that are not mountainous still get a massive amount of visitors, because they too, have something unique to offer. Accessibility in Tasmanian national parks is somewhat substantially different to the other three eastern states of Australia, with forms of transportation apart from your own to most parks almost nonexistent. Most national parks only have one or two roads leading into them, but those that are not on the main island of Tasmania often don't have any. For those parks that are not connected via land and is nearby to the main island of Tasmania, there will likely be a ferry or some method of taking you there. The main exception to this is Kent Group National Park, which is a fairly isolated national park in the middle of Bass Strait which only possible via private boat and Savage River National Park on the mainland, which is completely inaccessible from the public in all ways. Apart from that, the general rule applies. In most parks, there are generally very few roads, but some national parks may not have any roads to begin with. Even if the park has roads, it's mostly just one C class road, and they are often not paved. However, on the other hand, most parks generally have a good walking trails that allow you to get around the park very easily, although it is somewhat a trek at times. -54.6158.8620 Macquarie Island is also a significant area around fifteen hundred kilometres south of Hobart in the Subantarctic, run by the Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Services and also a UNESCO World Heritage Site. However, it's not a national park. New South Wales national parks National parks
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