Tuesday 19 May 2020

Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve: Ashbrook Fire Trail

General Information

Grading:  very easy 
Distance:  4 kilometers 
Total climb:  116 meters 
Time taken:  1 hour 
Map:  Tidbinbilla 8627-2S, 1:25 000 
Guide:  link 
Start point distance by road from Canberra GPO:  49 kilometers 
Start point map grid reference:  55H FA 72353 72785 
Destination map grid reference:  55H FA 73048 74180 
End point:  same as start

Route

http://maps.six.nsw.gov.au/

Description

Having left one car at the Koala Enclosure carpark, we drove to the Hanging Rock carpark (off the Tidbinbilla Loop Road) where we started the walk. We followed the fire trail along and then over Ashbrook Creek, heading up through some beautiful forest until we came to a fork in the road. The left fork went up to the end of the fire trail at Mountain Creek Road, but we chose instead to follow the right fork which goes back to the Tidbinbilla Loop Road following the koala enclosure fence.

You can view photographs from a previous walk that included the Ashbrook Fire Trail through this link.