From the Creek valley to the Now is a great time to explore the walks, picnic hills we can all take pride in spots along the and the views our beautiful environment. from the Belconnen hills. While enjoying our parks and green belts if you Your walking guide You can also get involved in caring for it through come across areas needing maintenance or other the Ginninderra Catchment Group including care, please contact Access , the ACT the local Frogwatch and Waterwatch, and local Government’s frontline one-stop shop, online, to Ginninderra Valley Landcare groups: or call 13 22 81: and Belconnen Hills • Friends of Aranda Bushland • Weekdays - 7am to 8pm • Friends of Bruce Ridge • Saturday - 8am to 5pm • Friends of Mount Painter • Sunday - 9am to 5pm • Friends of the Pinnacle • Holt Community Parkcarers • Jarramlee Park Landcare (Dunlop) • Mount Rogers Landcare Group • North Belconnen Landcare Group • Mulanggang Traditional Aboriginal Landcare • Umbagong Landcare Group • Wallaroo Landcare Group

T 6205 2244 ChrisBourkeMLA E [email protected] M GPO Box 1020, CHRIS BOURKE MLA Canberra, ACT 2601 @chrisbourke www.chrisbourke.com.au Authorised by Dr Chris Bourke MLA, Labor Member for Ginninderra. Labor Member for Ginninderra From Chris Bourke MLA Walking guide to Ginninderra Valley and Belconnen Hills Labor Member for Ginninderra

Walk Belconnen’s Walk the Ginninderra Creek Valley Ginninderra Hills

You can walk via the green belts You can get to the hills and paths through our suburbs of Ginninderra many ways. which connect to Ginninderra Creek Below are some starting parklands and the hills, bush points for your walk up and grasslands surrounding us. each hill.

Ginninderra Creek Mt Painter - 743m Ginninderra Creek flows from Mt Painter at 743 metres is the through highest hill. Start from Booth and the heart of Belconnen then joins Crescent or Skinner Street Cook. the Murrumbidgee in NSW. The Pinnacle - 709m Umbagong Nature Park Start from Springvale Axe grinding grooves along the creek Drive near De Sallis Street at Umbagong Nature Park are a reminder Weetangera. of the valley’s Aboriginal heritage. Mt Rogers - 704m Palmerville Heritage Park Start from Wickens Place Mature English oaks and signage off Bingley Crescent, Fraser at Palmerville Heritage Park tell the or Rechner Place, Flynn. story of one of the valley’s earliest You can walk your dog off leash European villages its post office on Mt Rogers but not on the and convict barracks. other hills. Lake Ginninderra Percival Hill - 662m Parkland around Lake Ginninderra Start from Schow Place off includes John Knight Memorial park, Temperley Street in Nicholls. beaches and the enclosed dog park Gossan Hill - 660m off Diddams Close. Start from Mugglestone Place, Emu Bank foreshore off Crisp Circuit in Bruce. The Emu Bank foreshore, with the Aranda Ridge and Bushland , restaurants, bars and the skate park, is Belconnen’s Start from parking areas along “City to the Lake”. Bindubi St Aranda. The heritage Aranda Snow Gums area is off Dunlop Grasslands Nature Reserve limits for dogs. Take a walk through Dunlop Grasslands Nature Reserve to see original Map courtesy of Beverley Wood vegetation and species.