1 9 LEGEND Reform Hill Walking Tracks Pebble Beach Trail Information Centres Highlighted walk: see overleaf 4km / 1 hour Start: Embankment Dr, Mount Beauty Shared Trail 2 Mount Beauty & Tawonga South Ovens River Trail Unsealed Track 5.6kms / 1 hour 15 minutes 10 1 Start: various locations in , Mount Beauty Gorge Walk Rotary Park or Apex Park 2 Highlighted walk: see overleaf Myrtleford 11 Survey Track / Pole Track Highlighted walk: see overleaf

12 PLEASE NOTE The maps contained in this brochure Mount Beauty To Tawonga Trail may not be suitable for navigational 13.4km / 3 hours purposes for all walks. It is advised that the Any point between Start: appropriate Parks Park Notes and Mount Beauty and Tawonga /or land Victoria topographical maps be Tawonga obtained prior to undertaking any of the listed walks.

13 18 19 Lake Guy Walk View Point Nature Walk GRADING INFORMATION 5 Highlighted walk: see overleaf Highlighted walk: see overleaf Walks in this brochure have been graded 3 4 3 using the Australian Walking Track Grading Cherry Walk 19 System. (Grade 1 – Grade 5) 18 8 9 5km / 1.5 hours Mountain Creek Walks 6 7 10 Start: Riverside Precint, Howitt Park Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Highlighted walk: see overleaf 11 Bright 12 Grade 4 Grade 5 4 20 Wallace - Cope Heritage Trail Grade 1 No bushwalking experience Canyon Trail required. Flat even surface with no steps Highlighted walk: see overleaf Highlighted walk: see overleaf or steep sections. Suitable for wheelchair users who have someone to assist them. 5 21 Grade 2 No bushwalking experience Ropers Lookout required. The track is a hardened or Apex Lookout Walk compacted surface and may have a gentle 13 5km / 1.5 hours Highlighted walk: see overleaf hill section or sections and occasional Start: car park 3kms from Falls Creek steps. on the Bogong High Plains Rd 6 Grade 3 Suitable for most ages and fitness Bennetts Trail Alpine National Park levels. Some bushwalking experience recommended. Tracks may have short 11km / 2.5 hours steep hill sections a rough surface and Town Centre many steps. Bright Grade 4 Bushwalking experience recommended. Tracks may be long, rough and very steep. Directional signage may be limited. 7 20 14 Grade 5 Very experienced bushwalkers 14 Bright - Harrietville Trail Charlie Miley Walk with specialised skills, including navigation and emergency first aid. Tracks are likely to 15 21 10km / 2 hours Highlighted walk: see overleaf Start: Riverside Precint, Howitt Park be very rough, very steep and unmarked. Bright Australian Alps 15 Bright - Harrietville Trail MORE INFORMATION ON ALL WALKS Walking Track 8 visitbrightandsurrounds.com.au Wandi Walk 10km / 2 hours or 1800 111 885 to talk to a Visitor Start: Pioneer Park 11km / 2.5 hours Information Centre. Start: Riverside Precinct, Howitt Park Harrietville Please refer to our website for Important Bright to Information & Cautions before you go. 16 Respect the traditional owners and Room With A View their country as well as other visitors by 3km / 1 hour aiming to leave the area as you found it. @brightandsurrounds Start: Dinner Plain Hut EMERGENCY/ CONTACT NUMBERS facebook.com/brightandsurrounds Dinner Plain Police, Ambulance, Fire 000 Bright & Surrounds 17 SES 132 500 16 Dead Timber Hill 17 Vic Emergency Hotline 1800 226 226 #brightandsurroundswalks Highlighted walk: see overleaf Parks Victoria 131 963 #lovebright #myrtleford #harrietville #mtbeauty #walkhighcountry 1 4 5 Reform Hill MEDIUM Canyon Trail Apex Lookout Walk Walking Tracks 4.9km / 1.5 hours 3km / 1.5 hours 1.1km - 3.7km / 1 hour to 1.5 hours Riverside Precinct, Howitt Park Quinn's Gap car park, 1.5km JA Jones Reserve, Myrtle St Head towards Star Road from Howitt up Mt Rd WALKS Park at Quinn’s Gap, 1.5 km up Mount There are several walking tracks Park. The track on the southern bank around Reform Hill. Most people from Howitt Park to Canyon Lane is Porepunkah Road. Follow the signs start from J.A. Jones Memorial a sealed shared trail and wheelchair for this steady climb that offers Reserve on the Murray to Mountains AND friendly (Grade 1). This walk can be views over the township of Bright, Rail Trail, then steer your own done as a short loop, crossing the Mount Feathertop (1922m), Mount course through the reserve. first suspension bridge. Otherwise, Fainter (1833m) and Mount Bogong Monuments and places of interest walk to the second bridge and return (1986m), the highest peak in Victoria. in Reform Hill: Hume and TRAILS the opposite side. The track on the A. Bright Hovell Monument (erected 1924 to northern bank of the Ovens River celebrate 100 years of exploration); has steep steps. For a longer loop, B. Reform Mine main shaft and GUIDE continue past the two suspension ventilation shaft; C. Original bridges to the railway bridge and Myrtleford Reservoir; and D. Reform One hour up to 2.5 hours return along the Murray to Mountains Hill Lookout. Rail Trail. Myrtleford For more walks see our short and longer walks guides Bright

closed 10 11 13 14 Mount Beauty Survey Track/Pole Track Lake Guy Walk Charlie Miley Walk Gorge Walk 7km / 2.5 hours 3km / 1 to 1.5 hours 3km / 1 hour 2.8km / 1.5 hours Tawonga Crescent (opposite the car park on Lake View Cr Clarrie Keating Memorial Park, Bogong High Plains Road (opposite Mount Beauty Golf Course Club Drive to the Junction Dam Picnic Charlie Miley Rd the Mount Beauty Visitor Centre OR House) or Big Hill Mountain Bike Park Ground at the southern end of the The walking trail starts at the Big Hill Mountain Bike Park) Start at Tawonga Crescent and follow lake to park your car. The walking carpark in the Clarrie Keating track commences at the timber Memorial Park and branches off Start opposite the Visitor Centre, the track until you reach ‘Cranky Charlie’ (a hairpin turn on the Bogong bridge at the Rocky Valley branch with a number of options and loops. follow the track alongside the river and goes along the eastern side until you come to the tail race head, High Plains Road) cross the Bogong The trail weaves through Chinese of the lake to the dam wall where gold diggings, along the Ovens then veer left. You may also begin High Plains Road and walk up West you turn around and return to the River and through the recreational the walk from the Big Hill Mountain Kiewa Road for approximately 500m carpark as access is no longer Bike Park. Walk along the Aqueduct to where the Pole Track branches off allowed through the dam wall. There reserve. These tracks are sign Track, following the track for 1 km to to the right. Pass through the gate is also a short walk from Trevor posted and offer further information a swing bridge over the West Kiewa and descend back down to Mount Allen BBQ area to the dam wall on the significance of historical River. To get to the adit/shaft and the Beauty to a second gate, then join the along the western side of the lake. sites along the trails. canyon, cross over the swing bridge Aqueduct Track to return to the Big Bogong Village Harrietville and walk uphill. During summer, it is Hill Mountain Bike Park. The track may possible to walk and wade upstream also be done in reverse, along the Pole for 400m to an impressive canyon. Track from the Mountain Bike Park. Mount Beauty & Tawonga South Mount Beauty & Tawonga South

17 18 19 20 Dead Timber Hill View Point Nature Walk Mountain Creek Walks Wallace - Cope 4km / 1.5 hours 4km / 2 hours 2.5km / 1.5 hours Heritage Trail Dinner Plain Hut Lake Catani Day Visitor Area Mountain Creek Picnic and Camping 6km / 2.5 hours Area, Mountain Creek Rd Starting from Dinner Plain Hut, Starting from the Lakeside Day Wallace Hut car park, follow the track to the sign marking Visitors Area at Lake Catani, this The walks start from the Mountain Bogong High Plains Rd the crossing point to the northern walk climbs up through Sub-Alpine Creek Picnic and Camping Area, 10.5 From the car park, walk the short side of the Great Alpine Road and Bogs and Mountain Ash Forests to km along Mountain Creek Road from distance to historic Wallace Hut follow the track leading to the a final lookout with fantastic views the , Tawonga. and continue past the hut to the Forest Walks trailhead. Follow of the Buckland Valley and the Nestled at the base of Mount Bogong aqueduct. Cross the aqueduct and the Dead Timber Hill track to the distant Alps. (1986m) there are several walks follow the track to the right, past the west to discover breathtaking Mount Buffalo National Park ranging in length from 15 minutes to Rover Chalet and onto the Australian views. Return same way or via 2 hours. Shady Gully Nature Walk Alps Walking Track to Cope Hut. Brabralung Trail. (1km, 15 minutes return), Tree Fern Follow the track from Cope Hut Dinner Plain Walk (2km, 1 hour return), Peppermint toward the Bogong High Plains Road Walk (2.5km, 1.5 hours return) and return to Wallace Hut along a Alpine National Park spectacular section of track with fine views toward Mount Kosciuszko (2228m), Australia’s highest mountain. Alpine National Park