Moonee Ponds Creek Walking Trail
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Walking for pleasure Walking is a cheap, safe and enjoyable way of staying healthy Mascoma St Boeing Rd that can be done at almost any time. To make your walks BUS even more enjoyable you can: ROUTE Moonee Ponds Creek 501 Walk with a friend or in a group + 1 Vary your walking routes walking trail Boeing Rd Nth Essendon Mascoma St Lockheed St Some more tips for your wellbeing BUS Boeing Ath Centre Reserve ROUTE B Wear light, loose, comfortable clothing and 501 3 + 2 comfortable well-cushioned flat sole shoes Strathnaver Reserve 1 Avoid the hottest times of the day Nth Essendon John Pascoe Lockheed St Distance 3.5kms Melway reference 16 D5 Boeing Ath Centre Fawkner Reserve Don’t walk when you are feeling ill B Reserve Mascoma St 2 3 Try to make time for gentle stretching exercises before and after you walk Boeing Rd Strathnaver Reserve Mascoma St Always wear a hat and apply sunscreen BUS John Pascoe Nursery Corner ROUTE Mascoma St Fawkner Reserve Reserve B Be visible by wearing light coloured clothing when 501 Pascoe Vale Rd + Mascoma St walking in the dark Streldon Ave 1 Drink liquids before, during and after walking Nth Essendon Willonga St Lockheed St Boeing Ath Centre Nursery Corner B Reserve Walking in your municipality Reserve B 3 BUS ROUTE Pascoe Vale Rd The City of Moonee Valley has produced a series of 2 Mascoma St Strathnaver Reserve Streldon Ave 501 4 do-it-yourself walks, designed to encourage people of all Willonga St Lebanon John Pascoe Reserve ages to discover the history and beauty of our municipality. Mascoma St Fawkner Reserve Lebanon St Boeing Reserve 1 + Getting involved BUS ROUTE Strathnaver Grassland 2 501 Essendon Airport4 There are a number of walking groups, bicycle groups, Fenacre St Peck St Nursery Corner Lebanon and other recreation groups in the City of Moonee Valley. Reserve Melissa St Strathnaver Reserve 3 Reserve B Lebanon St Boeing Reserve 1 For further information and contact details, call Council Pascoe Vale Rd + Loch Cr Streldon Ave Mascoma St on 9243 8888. Lebanon Reserve 4 Essendon Airport Strathnaver Grassland 2 Willonga St Fenacre St Peck St Other walks Tullamarine Freeway Walking Trail Melissa St Strathnaver Reserve 3 Moonee Ponds Heritage Trail, Woodlands and Napier Parks BUS ROUTE Loch Cr 4 Walking Trail,Bus A.J Route Davis andWalking Stops Trail, Queensx Park Heritage 501 Lebanon Reserve 4 Trail, Maribyrnong River Walking Trail. Lebanon Lebanon St ReserveTullamarine Freeway BBQ B Boeing Reserve 1 Walking Trail Moonee Valley Language Line TTY 9243 9170 + Arabic 9280 Parking0738 Somali Somali 9280 0743 Essendon Airport Strathnaver Grassland 2 Bus Route and Stops x Cantonese 9280 0739 Spanish 9280 0744 Fenacre St Peck St Croatian 9280 0740 Turkish 9280 0745 Melissa St Strathnaver Reserve 3 BBQ B Greek 9280 0741 Vietnamese 9280 0746 Loch Cr Lebanon Reserve 4 Parking Italian 9280 0742 All other languages 9280 0747 Tullamarine Freeway Walking Trail Bus Route and Stops x BBQ B Parking Moonee Ponds Creek walking trail A pleasant 3.5 kilometre walk with Boeing Reserve as its base, the Moonee Ponds Creek Trail is a nature lover’s delight. 1 Boeing Reserve 3 Strathnaver Reserve Getting home again The creek is home to a variety of bird life and many different A major feature of Boeing Reserve is the presence of the This part of Moonee Valley is part of a vast lava plain that The most obvious way to return to the starting point is to types of vegetation. It also has an interesting history, having Essendon Airport to the south. If you rest on the grass or a covers a large part of Victoria and Melbourne’s west. This lava walk back up the creek. However, should you be a little leg provided surveyors with parish boundaries and pioneers bench for a while, you should be able to see some aircraft taking cooled to form basalt, a rock that has fi gured prominently weary, a less strenuous way to return to Boeing Reserve is with the water necessary for their settlement’s survival. In off or landing from the North-South Runway. in Victoria’s architecture. The basalt in this area of Moonee to walk along Melissa Street, turn right at Lebanon Street 1874, local butchers Gargill and Butler were ordered to move Essendon Airport opened in 1921 and has grown steadily over Valley is about 16-23 million years old. Western Victoria was and walk to Fenacre Street. From there, you can catch the their slaughter house from the banks of the Moonee Ponds the years until it reached its current dimensions in 1970. dotted with many active volcanoes. These volcanoes laid down Number 501 bus to Boeing Road and Boeing Reserve where Creek because the residents of Broadmeadows were drawing Due to a lack of space, the airport was unable to cater for large extensive lava plains that account for the fl at landscapes and you started the walk. drinking water from the creek. passenger jets. This necessitated the building of Tullarmarine rocky outcrops that characterise Victoria’s west. Airport and Essendon’s future as a secondary terminal. Diffi culty Easy 4 Lebanon Reserve Surface Bitumen Strathnaver Grassland Limited wheelchair access This trail can be accessed from 2 Lebanon Reserve marks the end of the Moonee Ponds Creek the boeing reserve car park. The trail is bitumen and suitable The Strathnaver Grassland is in an area of native vegetation Walk. The track you are following continues on along Moonee for people using wheelchairs that has managed to survive human activity. Thanks to a careful Ponds Creek beyond Flemington to Footscray Road, although Bus information For bus information on the return journey revegetation and management program, walkers will be able to the creek is concreted for a large part of the journey to see map or ‘getting home again’ section gain an appreciation of what this area looked like before white where it meets the Yarra River in Melbourne’s docklands. settlement. The original vegetation in the area would have been This is a long way from the creek’s origins near Greenvale in References (Greening Australia Victoria), Yarra Corridor a few red gums, many shrubs, grasses, mosses and lichens. The Melbourne’s north. Eco-Tourism Guide, Guide Four. predominant lichen growing in Strathnaver Reserve is estimated (Regional Guide Victorian Geology), John McAndrew, 1973 to be up to 100 years old. This area has managed to survive (Melbourne Water on behalf of the Moonee Ponds Creek clearing and mowing because of the rocky escarpment on which Association), Moonee Ponds Creek Concept Plan, 1992. it is found. .