ViewpointHidden gem
Iron Blow lookout
Queenstown, Tasmania
Flooded open-cut copper pit on the edge of Queenstown with a view over the stripped hills.
- Cost
- Free
- Booking
- No need to book
- Time to allow
- 20 min
Mount Lyell's Iron Blow is a flooded crater and one of the best vantage points over the barren Queenstown valley. The lookout is on the Lyell Highway just before the 99 Bends.
Good to know
- Combine with the 99 Bends descent
- See the Horsetail Falls walk nearby
- Best time
- Afternoon
- Open
- All year
- Getting there
- Sealed, small car park.
- Vehicles
- Campervans fine
- Dogs
- No dogs
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