Burnside Walks - C + D Circuits (5.8km), Mount Osmond Reserve, South Australia

Burnside Walks - C + D Circuits is a 5.8km, grade 4 hike located in the Mount Osmond Reserve, South Australia. The hike should take around 3 hrs to complete.

Length: 5.8km

Duration: 3 hrs

Grade: 4

Style: Circuit

Start: 19 Travers Dr

End: 19 Travers Dr

Location: Mount Osmond Reserve

Closest town: Beaumont

South Australia

From state capital: 8.2km

Longitude: 138.661961

Latitude: -34.95539689

Hike summary

The many walking trails in Mount Osmond Reserve provides good opportunity to combine walking loops, such as combining the C Circuit (Themeda Circuit) and D Circuit (Beaumont Circuit). The trails through Mount Osmond Reserve are open, and a mix of single track walking trail, and wider fire tracks. Some of the walking trails here are well contoured and wind their way around the hills. There are options to use the very steep Centre Track, a fire track that intercepts the winding walking trail, as a shortcut.

This walking trail is part of the Burnside Walks network, a series of trails around the hills on the edge of the City of Burnside, and in Mount Osmond Reserve. The trails are all well marked, with regular signs and numbered checkpoints that correspond to the excellent walking map.

Parking is available on Dashwood Road, near #110, Beaumont, or at 12 Hayward Drive, Mount Osmond, and at places marked with a P on the Burnside Walks Brochure.

This hike can be accessed by Adelaide Metro bus, via Bus Stop 20 Dashwood Road, Beaumont.

Route and GPX file

Total distance: 7092 m
Max elevation: 357 m
Min elevation: 206 m
Total climbing: 77 m
Total descent: -144 m

Download file: Burnside-Walks-Circuit-C-D1.gpx

For more information on this hiking trail, please visit Walking SA

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Location

Getting there

Parking is available on Dashwood Road, near #110, Beaumont, or at 12 Hayward Drive, Mount Osmond, and at places marked with a P on the Burnside Walks Brochure.

This hike can be accessed by Adelaide Metro bus, via Bus Stop 20 Dashwood Road, Beaumont.

GPX file courtesy of Walking SA. File may not contain elevation data and may only represent half the length on return hikes.

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About the region

Mount Osmond is a small suburb of 2,497 people in the South Australian capital city of Adelaide. The suburb is at a high elevation in the Mount Lofty Ranges, and provides views over Adelaide as well as containing a renowned golf course and country club. Mining operations in the 19th century gave the area notoriety, but it has since developed slowly into a small, quiet and secluded suburb.

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Trail Hiking Australia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands on which we hike and pay respects to their Elders, past and present, and we acknowledge the First Nations people of other communities who may be here today.

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