The Springs Shelter
Known as The Springs, Springs Picnic Shelter or Springs Hut.
Located halfway up the Pinnacle Drive on the right, and below the original site of the Springs Hotel.
History
The history of this site is substantial and complex having always been a preferred picnic location for Hobartions since the early 1800’s. A number of different shelter huts have stood on this site, but more commonly on the top side of the road, where the magnificent Springs Hotel also stood. (The Springs Hotel was built in 1907 and burnt down in the bushfires of February 1967 - it stood across the road on the upper side).
The current picnic shelter was built in the late 1800s and is one of many to have been on this site. There have been a number of attempts or plans to upgrade or replace it with a modern, fee-paid visitors centre, but none has been approved.
Construction
Stone walls with a gabled corrugated iron roof.