Crib & Cradle

Crib & Cradle

Crib & Cradle offers authentic hostel accommodation (built for the mine's workers) in the mining town of Rosebery on Tasmania's West Coast. Crib & Cradle has self-contained houses and a range of hostel rooms with shared bathroom facilities.

It has a licenced dining room and guest lounge.
We are open for breakfast from 5am to 7:30am every morning and for Dinner from 5:20 to 7:30 pm every evening.

Rosebery is situated in the midst of beautiful mountains and temperate rain-forests, it allows the visitors to find solitude and beauty at every turn. It caters to the bush walker, the bike rider, the fisherman and the person just looking for something different.

One of Tasmania's highest waterfalls Montezuma Falls (104 metres) are located between Rosebery and Zeehan. The track will take you through open park-like rainforest that includes leatherwood, myrtle, sassafras, giant tree ferns and eye-catching fungi. You're sure to get close to several different birds along the way,

Just ...
10 mins drive to the Pieman River Hydro-electric's numerous lakes & streams for a fabulous day fishing for Tasmanian Trout (when in season), and we are on the Southern Edge of the Tarkine Wilderness Area (Australia's Largest Temperate Rainforest)

about 45-60 mins drive to CRADLE MOUNTAIN, STRAHAN, & QUEENSTOWN and we are on the Southern Edge of the Tarkine Wilderness Area (Australia's Largest Temperate Rainforest)

about 90 mins drive (125km) to the Burnie/Wynyard Airport


ACCOMMODATION from... $45 pn Single Compact Hostel Room


Ph. (03) 6473 1055 or Fax: (03) 6473 1066 ...read more