The Meehan Range Nature Recreation Area is 2,700Ha and is 10km from Hobart with access at the end of Belbins Road, Cambridge or at the Flagstaff Gully Link Road mountain bike parking area. The area is great for running, walking and mountain biking with circuits from 20m minutes to three hours plus. There are a quite a few major tracks, many minor tracks including a maze of mountain bike tracks in the area.
Be careful on slippery gravel hills. A good level of fitness is required for most of the caches in the set. I have most caches close to trails that generally have a fair (but often persistent) gradient. Cross country is fine, but harder work.
The area is mostly dry sclerophyll Eucalypt forest with evidence of quarrying gravel for the Hobart airport runway. There also used to be an "RAAF Replenishing Centre" and munitions store during WW2. Views from the ridges to the north are over Cambridge and Frederick-Henry Bay while to the south are over the Derwent and Hobart.
There are at least 50 bird species that have been observed in the area. If you want to note any species, add them to http://www.ala.org.au.
