| Type: | suburb |
| Travellers Rest | |
| State: | tas |
| Lga: | Meander Valley, Northern Midlands |
| Postcode: | 7250 |
| Pop: | 305 |
| Pop Footnotes: | [1] |
| Stategov: | Lyons |
| Fedgov: | Lyons |
| Region: | Launceston, Central |
| Location1: | Westbury |
| Dist1: | 24 |
| Dir1: | E |
| Near-Nw: | Westwood |
| Near-N: | Blackstone Heights |
| Near-Ne: | Prospect Vale |
| Near-W: | Hadspen |
| Near-E: | Prospect Vale |
| Near-Sw: | Longford |
| Near-S: | Longford |
| Near-Se: | Longford |
Travellers Rest is a rural/residential locality in the local government areas (LGA) of Meander Valley (98%) and Northern Midlands (2%) in the Launceston and Central LGA regions of Tasmania. The locality is about east of the town of Westbury. The 2016 census recorded a population of 305 for the state suburb of Travellers Rest.[1] It is a settled semi-rural area at the edge of Greater Launceston.[2]
Travellers Rest is a confirmed locality.[3] In the 19th century the area was largely uninhabited. At the junction where the road from Launceston branches — the branches lead now and led then to Longford and Hadspen — a hotel was built in 1833[4] by G & T Burnett. The hotel was initially called the Travellers Rest Hotel. It burned down in March 1930 due to a hotel employee's accident; he was filling a motorcycle with petrol while holding a lit storm lantern.[5] By 1941 only the front wall remained, a state that led to a call for its demolition.[6] The remaining ruins were finally removed in 1990 when the site was covered by construction of the Bass Highway.[7]
The South Esk River forms the north-western boundary.
National Route 1 (Bass Highway) runs through from east to west.[3] [8]