1000 Steps Loop walk (Dandenongs)
Sunny day yesterday so went off to the Dandenongs to tackle the 1000 Steps walk again, including the ‘round the back’ extra bits. Total walk is about 11 km and you should allocate 3 to 4 hours. This walk is not even an hour from my place.
It’s broken up into 4 main bits
- The 1000 Steps walk itself, aka Kokoda Memorial aka Tree Fern Gully. Quite steep. Up to the top of One Tree Hill (red, below, click on image to see larger versions at gallery)
- From the Hill it’s down then level along the ‘back’ of the mountains (blue)
- Up again – sustained up hill on a path – to the top of Chandlers Hill (blue)
- Back down and around to the ‘front’, being the start of the walk in the 1000 Steps car park (magenta)
And here’s just a few of the Steps themselves:
A few more photos are available, best to view as a slideshow.
This is a really good walk particularly on a sunny day. Full details are Walk 22 (Ferntree Gully Forest) in the Day Walks Victoria book. Some tracks have been renamed or merged since this edition was published; but nothing too complicated.
All tracks are in the Melways, starting on Map 74 H4.
