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Australia Hiking Resources

  • Adventurer Maps - Produces maps of old goldfields, historic areas and tracks. Concentrates on the Walhalla to Enochs Point and Powelltown areas - this is the region north-east of Melbourne. Some of these maps are useful for bushwalking showing more tracks than the official topographic maps.
  • Australian Bushwalking & Camping Reference Site - The aim of this site is present valid and useful guides in the best that the Australian bush has to offer. We strive to provide stacks of handy information on where to go and what to do - and what not to do - while you're out there. Since it's inception in August 1996 we've grown from a single page off the back of a personal site, to a reference manual with over 150 pages, 80 photos and half a dozen maps ... and growing by the week.
  • Australian Hiking - A directory of bushwalking tracks and resources in Australia and articles about hiking.
  • Bureau of Meteorology
  • Bushwalkers Wilderness Rescue - Bushwalkers Wilderness Rescue Squad and operates as a specialist land search and rescue squad affiliated with the NSW Volunteer Rescue Association. (VRA). All operations are performed under the direction of the NSW Police.
    The NSW Confederation is in turn a member of the National body Bushwalking Australia. Information about hiking, walking, and camping in Victoria.
  • Essential Skills - The aim of "The Guide" is to help people  interested in Outdoor Recreation  find links to useful resources, for the South Eastern states of Australia (Victoria and New South Wales).
  • Gone Hiking - Information about hiking, walking, and camping in Victoria.
  • Hiking Victoria - Message Board, many features, for anyone interested in recreational or educational walking in Victoria.
  • National Mapping Australia - National mapping Australia (Formerly AUSLIG)
  • Parks Victoria - Parks Victoria is the custodian of a diverse estate of significant parks in Victoria and of the recreational management of Port Phillip Bay, Western Port and the Yarra and Maribyrnong rivers.
  • Tasmanian Bush Walking & Mountaineering - Contains a list of local mountain ranges, trail notes, and an equipment checklist.
  • Tracks and Trails of Victoria - Hike a challenging alpine track to a secluded waterfall. Victoria's walking and riding trails provide the perfect getaway for everyone. You will find many trails are close to Melbourne and most are within easy driving distance of the city.
  • Victorian Orienteering Association - Orienteering offers people the chance to learn how to navigate confidently - whether it be through local streets and parks of Melbourne or out in the state forests in Victoria. While there are many forms of orienteering, the common element that applies to all of these is a map. In most cases, the map identifies

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Discussion Forums on Bushwalking Australia

Walking Tracks

South Australia

  • Friends of the Heysen Trail. They are responsible for much of this track's maintenance and should be contacted if you are contemplating this trail. The web site does not contain a lot of information to download but they do produce good printed information for walkers to purchase.

Victoria

  • Great Dividing Trail - The Great Dividing Trail Association has constructed a walking track from Castlemaine to Ballarat. This active group is currently working on extensions to Bendigo and the side track through Lerderderg Gorge to Bacchus Marsh.
  • Short Walk in Victoria - Most walks described are located in the general area around Melbourne, but there are many further afield!

Western Australia

  • Bibbulmun Track - An excellent overview of the Bibbulmun Track in Western Australia by The Friends of the Bibbulmun Track. Website includes, detailed maps, facilities, history, photo's, track services and offers a membership.
  • WalkGPS - Bushwalks in the Perth region, Western Australia This site provides descriptions, maps, waypoints, routes and photos for 40 one-day bushwalks most of which are less than 100km from the city of Perth in Western Australia

Personal Pages

  • Anthony Dunk - A small site but worth visiting if you intend to explore the mountains and gorges north of the Blue Mountains behind Sydney.
  • Aushiker - A small site concentrating on walks in Western Australia.
  • David Noble - This site contains lots of information about the canyons behind Sydney and has an excellent photo gallery – well worth looking at.
  • Dzung Nguyen' - Personal home page of Dzung Nguyen' . Born in Vietnam, and lived half her life in Melbourne - Victoria - Australia. Dzung Nguyen' has a keen interest in bushwalking, navigation, cross-country skiing, canoeing, kayaking, snorkelling, cycling, and tennis.
    Danny Yee's - Bushwalking and Travel Pages.
  • Geoff Murray - A small site containing photographs of some of Tasmania's walking areas. There are some nice photos here that will give you another view of what these places look like.
  • Geoff Wise's Wilderness - Has some good trip reports, a selection of photographs and a set of links to other sites. The Links page is extensive and a great site to browse for other bushwalking related sites. This site is also regularly growing and is worth revisiting.
  • Hiking In Tasmania - A personal website by Krishna, including three very lengthy photographic tours of the Overland Track, the Western Arthur's (including Federation Peak) and the Southern Ranges (including Precipitous Bluff). With around 100 images in each tour, they provide a very good feel of what there is. The site also contains some useful links to walking resources for those intending to walk in Tasmania.
  • John Chapman - Selected bushwalking tracks and ski-touring in Australia, details of my guide books along with the latest update notes for those books.
  • Manfred's Bushwalking Pages - These pages, reflect some of the beauty and celebration of many places accessed by devotees of "rucksack" sports. They contain brief descriptions of a few of our National Parks and other bushwalking venues, some trip reports, a host of interesting links as well as "Fluff & Stuff" of interest picked up along the way by this ageing bushwalker.
  • Peter Sundstrom - A selection of photographs of the Australian wilderness and National Parks, in New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory, Victoria, Queensland and Tasmania from a number of Peter's bushwalking and ski touring trips, to show just some of the diversity Australia has to offer.
  • Tyrone T Thomas - A full time bushwalking author who has authored an extensive set of guide books which concentrate mainly on one day walks. Has details of his books, a good set of general safety notes and includes notes and maps for two of his walks.

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