Top 10 Australian multi-day treks

A ‘best of’ list is always subjective, leaving out as much as it includes. Add to this the fact that completing the walks on this list alone would take almost four months, and it gets a lot more complicated! To whittle down the choices, we enlisted the help of the Australian bush walking knowledge base, a gang of five guidebook authors; John Chapman, John and Lyn Daly, Glenn Tempest and John Siseman, and outback bard Quentin Chester.

• Larapinta Trail, West MacDonnell Range, Northern Territory
• Thorsborne Trail, Hinchinbrook Island, Far North Queensland
• Australian Alps walking track, High Country of ACT, NSW and Victoria
• Fraser Island Great Walk, Queensland
• Wilderness Coast Walk, South coast of NSW and Victoria
• Overland Track, Tasmanian highlands
• Eastern Arthur Range, Southwest Tasmania
• Western Arthur Range Traverse, Southwest Tasmania
• Cape to Cape Track, Southwest Western Australia
• South Coast Track, Southwest Tasmania