Walks Tracks and Trails of Victoria

Description

For the first time in a single volume, this book brings together more than 150 of the best walks, tracks or trails in Victoria, which can be walked, cycled or driven by the moderately fit individual. They are located in national and state parks, state forests, conservation reserves, historic parks and local government and public easements. Other routes follow state highways, old railways and gold routes, or pass bushranger haunts and back roads linking towns and historical, geological or geographical features.

Most of the routes do not require specialist navigation or bushcraft skills, and vary in length from 45 minutes on a boardwalk to four-day walking and camping trips.

Walks, Tracks and Trails of Victoria highlights the best the state has to offer, from deserts to coastal and mountain environments. Easy-to-interpret maps are included to help you navigate, and the book’s size makes it convenient to bring with you on your adventures.

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Contents

Contents:

• Arrangement of walks by environment … viii
• Acknowledgements … x
• Introduction … 1
• Walk, track or trail
  • North West
    • Kings Billabong Nature Trails … 2
    • Pink Lakes Tracks … 4
    • Pink Lakes to Pine Plains … 6
    • Mournpall and River Tracks … 8
    • Camel Pad, Lake Mournpall Tracks … 10
    • Bugle Ridge & Nip Nip Tracks … 12
    • Desert Walk – Wyperfield … 13
    • Black Flat Track – Wyperfield … 14
    • Lake Brambrook Nature Walk … 16
    • Major Mitchell Trail … 17
    • Swan Hill River Walk … 26
    • River Track – Little Desert … 28
    • Stringybark Nature Walk – Little Desert … 29
  • Central West
    • Bluff Track – Mount Arapiles … 30
    • Grampians Day Drive … 31
    • Wonderland Track – Grampians … 34
    • Beehive Falls & Briggs Bluff – Grampians … 36
    • Stony Creek & Venus Baths – Grampians … 38
    • Hollow Mountain – Grampians … 39
    • Mount Staplyton Track – Grampians … 40
    • Mount William – Grampians … 42
    • Mount Abrupt – Grampians … 43
  • South West
    • Glenelg River Canoe Trail … 44
    • The Great South West Walk … 46
    • The Volcanic Trail … 50
    • Mounts Leura and Sugarloaf Walk … 55
    • Mount Napier Track … 56
    • Byaduk Caves Track … 57
    • Crater Rim Nature Walk – Mount Eccles … 58
    • Port Fairy Township Walk … 60
    • Tower Hill … 63
    • Thunder Point Coastal Walk … 64
    • Hopkins River & Point Ritchie Beach Walk … 65
    • Mahogany Walking Track … 66
    • Warrnambool Walks … 68
    • Historic Shipwreck Trail … 70
    • Great Ocean Walk … 76
    • Telegraph Track – Blanket Bay … 80
    • Maits Rest Rainforest Walk … 81
    • Beauchamp & Hopetoun Falls … 82
    • Cumberland & Sheoak Falls … 83
    • Cora Lynn Cascades Walk … 84
    • Erskine & Splitters Falls Walk … 86
    • Currawong Falls Walk … 87
    • Ironbark Basin – Point Addis … 88
    • Surf Coast Walk – Jan Juc to Moggs Creek … 89
  • Central
    • Beeripmo Walk … 92
    • Pyrenees Endurance Walk … 94
    • Melville Caves & Lookout Track … 96
    • Maryborough Heritage Trail … 97
    • Goldfields Tourist Route … 99
    • Maldon Historic Town Walk … 102
    • Lisles Reef Walk … 105
    • Parkin’s Reef Walk … 107
    • The Diggings Trail … 108
    • Muckleford Forest … 112
    • Enfield Circuit Walk … 113
    • Ballarat-Skipton Rail Trail … 114
    • Eureka Trail … 116
    • Castlemaine Bushland & Garden Walk … 118
    • The Burchell Trail – Brisbane Ranges … 120
    • Anakie Gorge Walk … 122
    • Steiglitz Walks … 123
    • The Great Dividing Trail … 124
    • Three Lost Children Walk … 140
    • Tipperary Track … 142
    • Hepburn Federation Trail … 144
    • Bendigo Bushland Trail … 147
    • Bendigo City Walk … 150
    • Bendigo Creek Linear Trail … 154
    • O’Keefe Rail Trail … 156
    • Coliban Main Channel Walking Trail … 158
    • Heritage Walk … 160
    • Barmah Forest Self Drive Track … 162
    • Victoria Lake Walk … 164
    • Goulburn River Path … 165
    • Ned Kelly & Police Trail … 166
    • Blowhard Spur Track … 172
    • Reids Tramline … 173
    • Walk into History … 174
    • No. 7 Trestle Bridge … 177
  • North East
    • Jawbone Creek Track … 178
    • Razorback & Cathedral Peak Track … 180
    • Mitchell’s Trail … 182
    • The Bluff Walking Track – Howqua Hills … 183
    • Circuit Road – Mount Stirling … 184
    • Murray to the Mountains Rail Trail … 186
    • Chiltern Town Walk … 190
    • Canyon Walk … 191
    • The Monolith – Mount Buffalo … 192
    • The Cathedral & The Hump … 193
    • The Big Walk – Mount Buffalo … 194
    • Dicksons Falls Nature Walk … 196
    • Tom Kneen Track – Northwest Spur Track … 197
    • Bungalow Spur Track – Mount Feathertop … 198
    • Razorback Ridge Track – Mount Feathertop … 200
    • The Twins – Mount St Bernard … 202
    • Staircase Spur Track … 203
    • Mount Cope Track – Bogong High Plains … 204
    • Wallaces Hut – Bogong High Plains … 205
    • Woolshed Falls Historic Walk … 206
    • Lake Kerford Walk … 207
    • Beechworth Historic Walk … 208
    • Woolshed Track … 211
  • Gippsland
    • The Wirilda Trail … 212
    • Moe to Yallourn Rail Trail … 215
    • Point Symthe Nature Trail … 216
    • Bald Hills Track … 217
    • Grand Ridge Rail Trail … 218
    • Great Southern Rail Trail … 219
    • Squeaky Beach & Lilly Pilly Gully … 222
    • Millers Landing-Vereker Outlook Trail … 224
    • Telegraph Track to Lighthouse … 225
    • Oberon Bay – Wilsons Promontory … 226
    • Wilsons Prom Circuit … 228
    • Walhalla Historic Park Trail … 232
    • Walhalla Goldfields Rail Trail … 234
    • Tarra-Bulga Walks … 236
    • Lake Tali Karng … 238
    • Moroka Gorge Track … 239
    • Bryce’s Gorge Track … 240
    • Mount Howitt Track … 242
    • Mitchell River Gorge Track … 244
    • Oriental Claims Walk … 246
    • Australian Alps Walking Track … 248
    • Flooding Creek Track … 253
    • East Gippsland Rail Trail … 254
    • Lakes Entrance Discovery Trail … 257
    • Bataluk Cultural Trail … 258
    • Snowy River Trail … 262
    • Silver Mine Walking Track … 266
    • Mount Ellery – Errinundra Plateau … 268
    • Young’s Creek … 269
    • Cape Conran Nature Trail … 270
    • McKenzie River Rainforest Walk … 271
    • Point Hicks Lightstation Track … 272
    • Dunes Walk … 273
    • Wingan Inlet Nature Trail … 274
    • Old Coach Road Track … 275
    • Genoa Peak Walk … 276
    • Bucklands Jetty Trail … 277
    • Mallacoota … 278
    • The Wilderness Coast Walk … 280
• References & further reading … 284