Gallery: Walls of Jerusalem

The Walls of Jerusalem National Park lies in the heart of Tasmania's Central Plateau, rising dramatically from pine forests to dolerite peaks. Named for its Biblical landscape where ancient stands of pencil pines dot the alpine plateau, massive dolerite walls rise in stark columns around pools and tarns shaped by ancient glaciers.

From the Temple, spectacular views stretch across to Solomon's Throne and King David's Peak, with Australia's largest remaining stand of ancient pencil pines spreading across the plateau below. This remote alpine landscape showcases Tasmania's most pristine collection of highland cushion plants and sphagnum bogs, with Dixon's Kingdom providing historic shelter among these thousand-year-old conifers.

The park connects to both the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park and the Central Plateau Conservation Area, forming a vital part of Tasmania's alpine heart where snow can fall in any month and weather changes rapidly across exposed peaks and sheltered valleys.