11 Fisherman’s Walk LEGEND 1km / 40 min Information Centres Start: Ryders Lane Reserve, Ryders Ln 1 Tawonga Shared Trail Mosaics Trail 12 Unsealed Track Highlighted walk: see overleaf Ryders Lane Walk 1 2.5km / 50 min 2 2 Start: Cnr Valley Hwy 3 Township Discovery Walk and Ryders Ln 0.5km / 30 min Tawonga Start: Myrtleford Visitor Information Centre, Myrtle St 13 Myrtleford Junction Creek Walk Highlighted walk: see overleaf PLEASE NOTE 3 Historic Walk The maps contained in this brochure 14 may not be suitable for navigational

1.8km / 45 min Mermaid Pool & Rock Pool Walk purposes for all walks. It is advised that the Start: The Old School Museum, 1.2km / 20 min appropriate Parks Park Notes and Cnr of Albert St and Elgin St Start: Rock Pool Road car park /or land Victoria topographical maps be Myrtleford Mount Beauty & obtained prior to undertaking any of the 12 listed walks. 11 26 4 15 21 22 4 27 River Walk Mount Beauty Pondage Walk Gorge Heritage Walk GRADING INFORMATION Highlighted walk: see overleaf Highlighted walk: see overleaf Highlighted walk: see overleaf Walks in this brochure have been graded 5 6 using the Australian Walking Track Grading 23 21 5 16 22 System. (Grade 1 – Grade 5) 13 14 15 Canyon Trail Fainter Falls Eurobin Falls / Ladies Bath Falls 7 8 Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 25 (short loop option) Highlighted walk: see overleaf 1.5 km / 45 min Start: Rd 2.5km / 45 min Grade 4 Grade 5 Start: Riverside Precinct, Howitt Park Mount Buffalo National Park 9 No bushwalking experience 10 Bright Grade 1 24 23 required. Flat even surface with no steps Cathedral – Hump Track or steep sections. Suitable for wheelchair 6 users who have someone to assist them.

Bakers Gully Reservoirs 2km / 45 min Grade 2 No bushwalking experience 16 Start: Mount Buffalo Rd required. The track is a hardened or 0.5 or 1km / 30min or 45 min compacted surface and may have a Mount Buffalo National Park Start: Bakers Gully Rd gentle hill section or sections and occasional steps. Bright 24 Suitable for most ages and fitness The Horn Track Grade 3 7 levels. Some bushwalking experience 1.5km / 45 min recommended. Tracks may have short Huggins Lookout Walk Start: Mount Buffalo Rd steep hill sections a rough surface and many steps. Highlighted walk: see overleaf Mount Buffalo National Park Grade 4 Bushwalking experience recommended. Tracks may be long, rough and very steep. Directional signage may be limited. 18 8 17 25 Grade 5 Very experienced bushwalkers

17 Blue Plaque Walk Riverside Walk Chalwell Galleries Track with specialised skills, including navigation and emergency first aid. Tracks are likely to 1km / 40 min Highlighted walk: see overleaf 1.7km / 1 hour be very rough, very steep and unmarked. Start: Various points around Bright Lake Catani Day Visitor Area Bright 18 Mount Buffalo National Park MORE INFORMATION ON ALL WALKS Walking Track Tronoh Dredge Walking Track 9 visitbrightandsurrounds.com.au Highlighted walk: see overleaf 26 Historic Town Walk Mountain Creek Walks or 1800 111 885 to talk to a Visitor Information Centre. 3km / 1.5 hours - Shady Gully Nature Walk 19 Please refer to our website for Important Start: Wandi Pub, Morses Creek Rd Carmichael Falls 1km / 15 min Information & Cautions before you go. Start: Mountain Creek Picnic and Highlighted walk: see overleaf Respect the traditional owners and Camping Area, Mountain Creek Rd their country as well as other visitors by 10 aiming to leave the area as you found it. The Diggings Walk 20 EMERGENCY/ CONTACT NUMBERS Highlighted walk: see overleaf Montane Loop Forest Walks 27 1.1 km / 30 min Mountain Creek Walks Police, Ambulance, Fire 000 Start: Trailhead, Great Alpine Rd - Tree Fern Walk SES 132 500 20 Dinner Plain 19 @brightandsurrounds 2km / 1 hour Vic Emergency Hotline 1800 226 226 Start: Mountain Creek Picnic and Parks Victoria 131 963 facebook.com/brightandsurrounds #brightandsurroundswalks Camping Area, Mountain Creek Rd #lovebright #myrtleford #harrietville Alpine National Park Bright & Surrounds #mtbeauty #walkhighcountry 1 4 7 10 Myrtleford Mosaics Trail Porepunkah River Walk Huggins Lookout Walk The Diggings Walk 2km / 1 hour (one way) 2.5km / 45 min 1.5km / 1 hour 2km / 1 hour Apex Park or Rotary Park Riverside Park, Service St Cnr Deacon Ave and Zivan Crt, Chinese Bridge car park, Starting in Rotary or Apex Park, this Start at Riverside Park and head east Bright or McFadyens Ln off Centenary Ave sealed, flat track follows along the along the Murray to Mountains Rail (off Bakers Gully Road) The Diggings loops take you Ovens River and offers a treasure Trail. Cross at the old Porepunkah This walk can be accessed from through some of the former hunt of ever evolving mosaics to Bridge and continue along the track either McFadyens Lane (off Bakers goldfields of Wandiligong, an area discover along the walk. A map is to the suspension bridge crossing the Gully Road) or from the corner of that has been subjected to almost every type of mining. available from the Myrtleford Visitor Ovens River. Cross the bridge and Deacon Avenue and Zivan Court. Information Centre for a gold coin return via the track on the north side The track winds its way steeply up A. Chinese Swing Bridge donation. To do this one way you of the Ovens River before reaching the side of the valley and rewards B. Swingbridge Picnic Area will need to organise transport from the Murray to Mountains Rail Trail. the walker with beautiful views over C. Lardis Picnic Area the other end, or return the same You can return to Riverside Park Bright, return on the same track. D. Bird Hide way for a 4km walk. It may also be via the Rail Trail. Please note there is no access to E. Junction Mine done as part of the 5.6km Ovens Porepunkah McFadyens Lane via Zivan Court. F. The Adit River Loop (details available in the Bright G. The Diggings Picnic Area medium walks guide). H. Chinese Pavilion Myrtleford Wandiligong

13 15 16 Junction Creek Walk Mount Beauty Fainter Falls SHORT 1km / 40 min Pondage Trail 1.5km / 40 min cnr Kiewa Valley 3km / 45 min Road, Highway and Vails Rd Lakeside precinct, between Bogong Village and Falls Creek WALKS Start at the intersection of Vails Bicentennial Park Road and . Start from the Lakeside Precinct This walk is located 1 km past The trail begins just past the bridge, and walk anti-clockwise following Bogong Village, just before the heading west through the gully the path around the pondage wall. Bogong High Plains Road crosses AND system, passing through tree ferns Follow the track over the spillway and the Pretty Valley Stream. Start the and crossing several bridges over continue over the Tail Race Channel walk opposite the car park. Follow Junction Creek. At the western bridge. This will take you behind the the signed walking track, which provides spectacular views TRAILS end of the walk follow the steps up Secondary College, the tennis courts, towards Vails Road. Either return Primary School, past the oval and of the falls and river. the same way or walk back down back to where you started. Bogong Village Vails Road. Keep an eye out for GUIDE Mount Beauty & Tawonga South resident wombats along the track. Mount Beauty & Tawonga South Up to one hour

For more walks see our medium and longer walks guides

17 18 19 21 Riverside Walk Tronoh Dredge Carmichael Falls Walk Gorge Heritage Walk 0.5 or 1.6km / 15 min or 45 min Walking Track 2km / 1 hour 2.5 km / 1 hour Pioneer Park 1.4km / 30 min Dinner Plain Track Gorge Day Visitor Area, Start at the Museum in Pioneer Tronoh Dredge car park, Heading off along the Dinner Plain opposite Mount Buffalo Chalet Park. For a short loop walk south off Feathertop Track 4WD track, this clearly marked trail This loop walk starts in the Gorge along the east branch of the Ovens Begin your walk from the Tronoh within the Alpine National Park Day Visitor Area opposite the River to Feathertop Lane. Turn right Dredge Hole car park off Feathertop descends through snow gum forest Mount Buffalo Chalet. Follow a and continue to the Great Alpine Track and head either way around this to a viewing platform overlooking series of interpretive signs that Road and then turn right again back man- made lake. The dredge hole was the picturesque Carmichael Falls. lead firstly to some of the most created by the Tronoh Dredge which to Pioneer Park. For a longer loop Dinner Plain spectacular views of the Gorge and continue along the Ovens River to was one of the world’s largest electric Crystal Brook Falls and then loop Bon Accord Track. Turn right and powered mechanical dredges. There back to explore the area’s history continue to the , are a number of other walking tracks and beauty through the eyes of turn right back to Pioneer Park around the Tronoh Dredge precinct, local pioneer, Guide Alice. these tracks are sign posted and offer Harrietville further information on the significance Mount Buffalo National Park of historical sites along the trails. Harrietville