Category: ACT

Booroomba Rocks Peak from Honeysuckle Campground, Namadgi National Park ACT

Booroomba Rocks Peak in Namadgi National Park is a short extension of the already excellent Booroomba Rocks walk, with some of the finest views in the ACT.

After visiting Booroomba Rocks last year I really wanted to visit nearby Booroomba Rocks Peak. You could easily do both together, but we had arrived at the rocks so late that we couldn’t visit the peak. Now we’ve done both it has confirmed this mountain as one of my favourite places in the ACT. There’s excellent views in all directions from the summit plateau, which is itself an attractive patchwork of open rocky sections, heath vegetation and forest.

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Legoland Rocks, ACT

More than one selection of huge rocks at Legoland, a short walk along Orroral Ridge in Namadgi National Park near Canberra.

Legoland, in Namadji National Park, is the unofficial name given to a jumble of huge rocks that have formed an impressive cavern, with rocks suspended in the ceiling. There’s also a nearby lookout an easy walk to the top of some of the rocks. It’s an easy walk to the rocks and that makes it a popular destination. For some peace and quiet you can walk on a similar, short distance to more rocks and more views, and probably have the place to yourself. 

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Molonglo Gorge Nature Reserve to Blue Tiles, ACT

Molonglo Gorge is a very attractive section of the Molonglo River, with an orange tinged rocky riverbed and arid, steep-sided river banks.

There’s very attractive scenery along Molonglo Gorge, with an orange tinged rocky riverbed and steep, often arid banks on the south side. It’s an easy and relatively short walk, although getting down to the Molonglo River in places is steep on informal tracks. An excellent half day option on the outskirts of Canberra that I really enjoyed. 

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Shepherd’s Lookout & Tong’s Hole / Molonglo River, ACT

Two attractive short walks: to Shepherd’s Lookout for views of the Murrumbidgee River, & to Tong’s Hole, a nice stretch of the Molonglo River.

Two short walks here to the north of Canberra. The first, to Shepherd’s Lookout, offers excellent views of the Murrumbidgee River. The second, ‘Tong’s Hole’, drops down to an attractive stretch of the Molonglo River. Nice scenery for very little effort on these walks, and if you do them at sunset you might be joined by the local kangaroos. 

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Tidbinbilla Mountain Circuit, Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve ACT

Excellent views from five peaks over 1400m, including Tidbinbilla Mountain (1615m), from this circuit walk in Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve.

I’d heard about this circuit in Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve from locals when walking up Mt Gingera, the ACT’s second highest peak. You visit five peaks over 1400m, topping out at 1615m on Tidbinbilla Mountain itself. There are generally excellent views in all directions from the peaks and open sections of what is essentially one long ridge.

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Mt Gingera from Corin Dam, Namadgi National Park ACT

Mt Gingera (1857m) in Namadgi National Park is the ACT’s second highest peak, and can be climbed from somewhere near the bottom (~950m) in a longish day. It holds snow in winter, so with that promise Sophia and I headed down to Canberra for our first proper winter walk in Australia. Wide open views from the summit are worth the climb, although I’m sure snow enhanced the experience rather.

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Booroomba Rocks Track, Namadgi National Park ACT

A short climb to Booroomba Rocks in Namadgi National Park provides excellent views of surrounding mountains, cliffs, and a rocky plateau at 1350m of elevation.

The relatively short climb to Booroomba Rocks delivers excellent views from a rocky plateau at roughly 1350m of elevation. The walk up through sometimes boulder strewn woodland is also pleasant. We encountered eucalypts we’d not seen before, and in early winter a number of impressive mushrooms.

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