Grass Tree Walk is a 14km, grade 3 hike located in the Brisbane Ranges National Park, Victoria. The hike should take around 4 hrs to complete.

Length: 14km

Duration: 4 hrs

Grade: 3

Style: Circuit

Start: Boar Gully Camping Ground

End: Boar Gully Camping Ground

Location: Brisbane Ranges National Park

Closest town: Bacchus Marsh

Victoria

From state capital: 75km

Longitude: 144.26201

Latitude: -37.7674

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Hike overview

The Grass Tree Walk commences at the Boar Gully Camping Ground in the northern reaches of the Brisbane Ranges National Park. Heading south from the campground, a large portion of this walk follows sections of the three-day Burchell Trail. The trail is well defined and well-marked in most places. As with several hikes in the Brisbane Ranges, large sections also follow management tracks although this should not detract from the experience. This is not a particularly strenuous hike with only one section of reasonable elevation gain.

Camping - Boar Gully Campgound

Enjoy quiet, secluded camping an easy drive from Melbourne in the Brisbane Ranges. Immerse yourself in nature, refresh your soul and experience the feeling of being away from it all, in wilderness just relaxing or enjoying a range of scenic walks and wildflowers.

Basic camping facilities provided include non-flush toilets, picnic tables and fireplaces. Fires may be lit in the fireplaces provided by Parks Victoria. Firewood collection is not permitted. Campers should bring their own firewood or a fuel stove for cooking. Tank water is available, but it is not suitable for drinking – supply your own drinking water.

Route and GPX file

Total distance: 13847 m
Max elevation: 441 m
Min elevation: 319 m
Total climbing: 431 m
Total descent: -431 m

Download file: Grass-Tree-Walk.gpx

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Getting there

From Melbourne, follow the Western Freeway to Bacchus Marsh and turn left along Geelong Road. Turn right at the roundabout (just over a kilometre on) and then after 8 kilometres (passing under the railway) turn right on Glenmore Road. Take a left on Reids Road (aka. Bacchus Marsh-Mount Wallace Road) and continue for about 14 kilometres. Turn left into Boar Gully Camping Ground.

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About the region

Little more than an hour's drive from Melbourne takes you to the state's richest wildflower habitat. Set in a low range of mountains dissected by rocky gullies, the unusual geology of Brisbane Ranges National Park has preserved plants that have long since vanished from the region, together with a correspondingly diverse bird population and the greatest density of koalas in Victoria.

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Hike Categories: 011-15km Brisbane Ranges National Park Circuit Full Day Grade 3 (Moderate) Victoria

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2 Reviews on “Grass Tree Walk (14km)”

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Grant Walker

Beautiful walk. I’m really enjoying hiking in the Brisbane Ranges. It’s full of surprises

20/02/2024, 22:15

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Heike Krumm

The Grass Tree Walk is a lovely, beautiful and relatively easy walk in the Brisbane Ranges. There’s only one major ascent on the walk, the rest is fairly easy walking. There are hundreds if not thousands of Grass Trees along the way which makes it very pretty. Major 4WD tracks are only used to link the different trails and most of the walking is on smaller tracks or trails. Despite the wet weather over the last half a year, there were no muddy bits on the trail. It’s a great hike in summer and winter. Will definitely do it again!

07/10/2022, 12:00

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V B

Did this walk recently – nice and quite walk out in the bush.
Spotted roos and wallabies early in the trail.
Some sections bit overgrown and/or trees have fallen (e.g. bit of Wallaby Track) – follow GPX file and bush bash for a bit, the cleared path shows up soon enough.
As we had done this anti-clockwise, it was a steep decline midway followed by a short incline after ; both don’t last long before you’re back on the flats

24/03/2022, 05:23

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