Thread: Day trip close to Melbourne

You could try the Warburton area, but alot of it has been bulldozed. There are still some good tracks though. Try Cemetry Hill, Britannia Range. Dont attempt Cummings spur unless your in for alot of damage.

Or the Toolangi/Narbethong area is always good. Many tracks of all standars to be found here. Some are closed atm. Check the parks website.

Or Mt Dissapointment area. Cant comment on it though. Havent been there.

Or a little further afeild, the Walhalla area is great. Around 2.5 hours from Melbourne. Alot of interesting things around to look at as well as lots of challenging tracks.

HTH

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I agree with all those locations suggested by Mick. Plenty of choice really - we are lucky here in Victoria that many of the areas are still available. Good choice of easy, medium tracks too.
Toolangi/Murunndindi or even up around Kinglake, or maybe the Wombat State Forest.
Or go through Marysville/Warburton down into the Big River and maybe up to Mt. Terrible.
Out East there's Bunyip State Park, although a lot of tracks have been closed permanently there.
There are a couple of books around on 4WD trips close to Melbourne- I have one put out by Craig Lewis and Cathy Savage and I saw another one at the RACV shop the other day.
The best maps are probably the Rooftop series - they tend to be fairly accurate and have lots of notes about the tracks etc.

Head straight north to kinglake/toolangi/ murindindi easy drive from east/north burbs an daslo not too far to drive back home. If you are taking family/kids, then a nice scenic drive is to the Mt St Leonards fire lookout.

Forgot about big river good drive right thru to Eildon township with nice cool camping/picnic areas along the way.

or you could wait till the 24-25 Nov and join a few of us for the weekend

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From Ashwood you'd get a good run (about 1 hour) to Bunyip State Forest at Gembrook. They are some easy touring tracks and steeper / rougher branches coming off these. As you head out of Gembrook toward the forest, you will come to a Rangers (DSE) station on the left (edge of town). They have a info box at the front with free maps.

Yep, spoilt for choice we are, also forgot Warby/ Powelltown. The last DAY trip i did to Powelltown, we came out of the forest at 1am !