Wielangta State Forest is on the south east coast of Tasmania, between Orford and Copping. Wielangta State Forest is a controversial forest, shown off by Forestry Tasmania and Gunns (the largest forestry company in the state) as a cooperative partnership leading to conservation in a working forest. However, most logging has ceased, and Forestry Tasmania has been taken to trial regarding Australia’s endangered species law with implications for Wielangta as a possible future national park.

The forest has excellent examples of dry forest, wet forest, mixed forest and rainforest as well as extensive old grown and regrowth sections. A number of different management practices have been applied to the area including clear felling, various selective logging practices and plantation establishment. Importantly, Wielangta State Forest is home to the tallest Blue Gums in Tasmania, the Eucalyptus Regnans, also the tallest flowering plant in the world, along with the migratory and endangered Swift Parrot, the also endangered Tasmania Wedge-tailed Eagle, a separate and larger bird than its mainland cousin, and other native birds, animals and plants.

It has been described by The Lonely Planet as a must-do detour to or from the East Coast and the Tasman Peninsula. Wielangta Forest Road connects Orford on the north via Bream Creek to Copping on the south.

Coles Bay, Wineglass Bay, and Freycinet National Park represents thoughts of fishing and boating, bushwalking, sea kayaking, rock climbing, sun and sand, and spectacular coastal scenery.

Coles Bay sits at the bottom of the granite mountains, known as the Hazards, and on the edge of the world-renowned Freycinet National Park and Wineglass Bay, about a two and 1/2 hours drive from Hobart and Launceston on the east coast of Tasmania.

In 2006, editors of Frommer’s guides in the U.S. named Wineglass Bay as one of their top 10 favourite beaches in the world. Prior to that, in 1999, American travel magazine 'Outside' named Wineglass Bay one of the top ten beaches in the world, saying, "This beach on the Tasman Sea forms a half-moon shape so precise it could be the smiley mouth on a Have A Nice Day button. I was the only human in sight. This place defines the word getaway; it’s rugged, serene and vast."