Walk Notes



Walk Notes for Term Three 2025

This is to help leaders with their walks.

Any questions? Ask Carol 0458-472-010 (preferably by text)

Please adapt and change the walk in any way you wish.


Clarence Plains Rivulet Track


Blog entry

 

Clarence Plains Rivulet Walk

13 July 2022

Start point

 

Bayview School

Directions and hints

Park in the school grounds, or roadside.

Cross the playing fields diagonally, keeping to the left of the tree. Pass through a gate and turn right along the track beside the Rivulet. Turn left and right to keep the Rivulet on your left. Further on take a left over a small rock bridge and cross Goodwin’s Road at the crossing. Continue until you come out on Meehan Road. Go left, then left into Dart Lane, left into Emerald Drive and back onto Goodwin’s Road. Return along the Rivulet but this time bear left and enter the school grounds on your right to walk in front to the buildings and back to the cars.

 

 

 

 

Hobart Rivulet


Blog entry

 

Hobart Rivulet

22 June 2022

Start point

 

Cascade Gardens car park

McRobies Rd

South Hobart

Directions and hints

Do a loop of Cascade Garden especially in autumn. It is often possible to go up the steps behind the toilet block and do a loop above the gardens.

After this follow the Rivulet downstream via Degraves St. the Female Factory and into  Hobart Linear Park. At one point there is a left hand option to go up and over a hill, returning to join the original track at South Hobart School. The track will now take you as far as Molle St via McKellar St and the Korean Memorial. At Molle St you can get coffee at Hamlet before returning.

 

 

 

 

 

Mount Nelson

 

Blog entry

 

Mount Nelson

20 September 2022

Start point

 

Signal Station

Directions and hints

 

Go down to the start of the track past the sign. Continue gently downhill until you reach the main Fire Trail. You can cross this and take a small loop back onto itself, or simply go up the fire trail and follow it back uphill. You will come to a gate onto Mount Nelson Road and so to the Signal Station.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Porter Hill, Mt. Nelson


Blog entry

 

Porter Hill

22 November 2023

Start point

 

Grange Picnic Area

Sandy Bay Road.

Directions and hints

Take the Truganini Track until you reach a right hand uphill turn off. Take this and go around the hillside until you come to the road. Go up the road to the Dorney House for a look around and to get the best views of the City.

Return the same way or take Smugglers Way, which is a bit steep in parts and slippery after rain. There is a signed entrance to the track on the road which you came up.

 

 

Racecourse Flats


Blog entry

 

new

Start

Lauderdale Football Club

(Angie Sue)

 

Hints and directions

 

Park in the sports oval and go around the outside, keeping left.

You will come to Racecourse Flats and go around as far as a Y shaped junction.

Go left between the houses to leave the Flats and then right on Bayview St.

Enter the beach at any of the lefthand access points and walk back towards Lauderdale. Leave on the ramp by the old jetty ruins.

Go along the canal and turn left onto the Highway.

The end is two blocks along.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ridgeway


Blog entry

 

Ridgeway

27 January 2021

Start point

 

Corner Ridgeway Road and Chimney Pot Hill Road

Directions and hints

 

Start by going down the road to the Ridgeway Dam gate. Take the uphill path to the right. Follow this and bearing left as the trail runs out. From here you will join a main trail back to the gate, cross the road and take the left hand uphill track which will return you to the start point.

 

 

 

Risdon Brook Park (bush)


Blog entry

 

Risdon Brook Park

22 February 2022

Start point

 

Risdon Brook Park

Directions and hints

 

From the car park, go down to the water side and continue in an anticlockwise to the head of the dam.

Continue on the track or for an interesting, but slightly hilly option, as you head back look for a gravel access road on the right. Go up it and through a gate onto another gravel path.

Turn left and go through the bush until you are nearly back to the start where you will see a grassy path leading off to the left. This will take you to the dam wall and car park.

 

 

 

 

 

Sandfly


Blog entry

 

Sandfly

28 March 2024

Start point 1.

Start point 2.

Sandfly Memorial Oval

Riverdale Road

Walk 1.

This is an undulating track, a bit rough in parts but generally easy.

Pleasant bush scenery and glimpses of the river.

The entrance to the walk is on the left as you go into the park. Follow this until you reach North West Bay River and turn left. Continue until you reach the road. Return the same way.

 

Walk 2.

This is only accessible at low water level as there are two river crossings. It is shallow and there are rocks but they are not stepping stones.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Suncoast Track


Blog entry

 

Suncoast Track

8 November 2021

Start point

 

Blackmans Bay Beach

(southern end)

Directions and hints

 

 Go to the end of the beach and find the track leading along the coast, follow it until you reach the dog park. There is a marked bush track on the other side, keep going until you see a little bridge which takes you across the valley and back the way you came.

At the top of the rise there is access to Suncoast Drive, cross the road and return via a laneway between beside number 72, then to 29 Tahune Crescent where another lane goes to Seacrest Avenue. At the bottom of Seacrest cross onto a grass area and another lane back to Blackman’s Bay Beach, via Flowerpot Crescent.

 

 


Tranmere Foreshore


Blog entry

 

Tranmere

30 June 2021

Start point

 

Cleve Court off Tranmere Rd

Directions and hints

 

Go to the end of Cleve Court and between number 17 and 20 to the shore.

Follow this as far as you like. There are toilets when you meet Tranmere Road. The Foreshore Trail continues along the roadside to Pindos Park.   The track continues for several kilometres, a loop of the park takes 10 minutes. Return the same way. Consider taking a short detour to a beach for intriguing rock formations and pools. Take a right turn onto the road at the end.

 

 

 

 

 

   

Whitewater Creek


Blog entry

 

Whitewater Creek

9 March 2022

Start point

 

Kingston Park

Goshawk Way

Directions and hints

 

 Go down to the creek, turn left and follow the path as far as the fork where a right turn takes you to Summerleas Road. Go right, up the road and take the left turn to Gormley Drive. On the left you will come to a grassy track which goes behind the community garden and dog park to Spring Farm. Go down O’Connors Drive and Spring Farm Road and turn left on the track beside Southern Outlet. When you come to Summerleas Road, cross it and take Whitewater Track back to Kingston Park.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Term Two 2025

Waterworks

Blog entry

 

 

 

Start point

 

Waterworks Reserve Entrance

Directions and hints

 

Due to parking woes on Romilly Street we will park at the Waterworks Reserve entrance and walk down the Pipeline to Romilly Street and return, then there are options for Strollers to take a shorter circuit and Ramblers to go anticlockwise around the two dams.

Meeting up again at the cars. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 Harts Hill

Blog entry

 

Harts Hill

20 July 2022

Start point

 

Mens Shed

Van Morey Road Margate

Directions and hints

Take the track behind the Mens Shed around to Engelfield Road, go up to the junction and left onto Frosts Road which becomes  Hickmans Rd, go along until you see a sign on the left and a track leading uphill. At the top of the hill, bear right past the trig point and descend quite steeply to a gravel road. Take the right hand track past the house and onwards downhill to Barretta. Keep left and continue through the bush until you meet the corner of Channel Hwy and the tip. Go along the road looking for a sign and left turn up a grassy track back to the Mens Shed.

 

To avoid the hill continue on Frosts Road when it veers left off Hickmans Rd.

 

 

 

 

Knocklofty

Blog entry

 

Knocklofty

22 March 2023

Start point

 

Forest Road car park

Directions and hints

 Take the track past the lookouts, keep right, detour via the frog bog. Look for a gravel track going uphill, Summit Loop.

Take the left option at the cairn. When descending take the righthand fork or you will be on a steep fire trail, not suitable for walking. Turn right at the bottom of the hill and return to the start.