Gordon

Walk Features: This loop walk takes you from the Shops through the streets, around Point Hut Pond, through reserves and playgrounds. There are steps at one point of this walk of which there are two options.

Duration of the walk: About 1 hour and 25 minutes (option A) or about 1 hour and 50 minutes (option B).

Region: Tuggeranong.

Information about the Suburb: Gordon was established in 1990 and named after the poet Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833–1870). Its streets are named after sportspersons.

Walk Directions

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To get to the start of the walk proceed south down the Tuggeranong Parkway and Drakeford Dr. Go R on Woodcock Dr then L on Lewis Luxton Av and park at the Shops on your L.

Note that streets in brackets means there is no street sign at this point of the walk.

1. From the Shops proceed out to (Lewis Luxton Av) and go R.
2. Cross over Woodcock Dr and go R
3. Go L down a concrete path towards Point Hutt Pond.
4. Cross over the top of (Larkin Cl).
5. Go R concrete path over a bridge.
6. Pass a playground on your R.
7. Follow the concrete path for quite a while around the pond on your L.
8. At the Point Hutt Crossing sign veer L down a concrete path.
9. Proceed on an unnamed road.
10. L on concrete path and follow it alongside the pond on your L.
11. Proceed quite some way to pass a seat and then later a bridge on your L.
12. Go L down a concrete path and through the (Knoke Av) underpass.
13. Continue on the concrete path with the reserve on your L and houses on your R.
14. Pass a concrete path on your L going across the water course.
15. After you pass over the top of (Barden Pl) on a bitumen area, at the next break in the houses, go R on a concrete path between them.
16. Follow the concrete path around to the playground on your R.
17. Go R on (Popplewell Pl).
18. Go L on Mina Wylie Cr.
19. Pass Bushby Cl, Dolan Cl and Robin Pl on your L.
20. Cross over Knoke Av and proceed up Harry Hopman Cct. Note ?? Hill ahead CHECK
21. Go R on Leahy Pl.
22. Proceed out from the end of Leahy Pl.
23. Go L on a concrete path.
24. Follow the concrete path all the way uphill.
25. Go R up four sets of steps.
26. Go L on a concrete path and then up three more steps and out into (Pails Pl).
27. Go R on Harry Hopman Cct.
28. Pass Robert Lewis Ct on your R. HILL AHEAD?
29. Go L on a concrete path through a reserve and down to a playground on your R.
30. Go R on (Knoke Av) past a bus shelter.
31. Go L on O’Hara Cl. HILLS AHEAD?
32. Proceed out from the end of O’Hara Cl and go L on a concrete path.
33. Follow the concrete path for quite some way alongside (Tharwa Dr) on your R and then a water course on your R.
34. Go R on an iron railing bridge over the water course.
35. Go L on a concrete path and proceed alongside the water course on your L.
36. Proceed through the (Knoke Av) underpass.
37. Go L on a bitumen path.
38. Cross an iron railing bridge.
39. Go L then R on a bitumen path to continue around the pond on your L.
40. Continue out onto grassland and through concrete posts with the pond on your L and a playground complex on your R.
41. Pass two seats and continue around the edge of the pond.
42. Go L on a bitumen path and then L out from its end onto a rough dirt track across open grassland. [Note the toilets off to your R]
43. Cross the the grassy area near the pond.
44. Pick up a concrete path as it crosses a storm water drain.
45. AT THE T-JUNCTION YOU CAN GO BACK TO THE SHOPS VIA OPTION A (ABOUT 5 MINS) OR VIA OPTION B (ABOUT 30 MINS)
46. OPTION A
47. At the t-junction go L on a concrete path to continue beside the pond on your L.
48. Pass (Gaylard Pl) on your R.
49. Go R on a concrete path then L up a path with the storm water drain on your L.
50. Cross over the end of (Larkin Cl).
51. Go R on Woodcock Dr then L to cross over Woodcock Dr.
52. Proceed up Lewis Loxton Av and back to the Shops.
53. OPTION B
54. At the t-junction go R on a concrete path alongside a storm water drain on your R.
55. Proceed through the (Woodcock Dr) underpass.
56. Cross an iron railing bridge.
57. Pass a playground on your L.
58. Continue on through the reserve with the water course on your L.
59. Pass bridges on your L.
60. Cross over (Lewis Luxton Av).
61. Go L over a bridge.
62. Proceed up on a concrete path.
63. Cross over (Fred Lane Cr).
64. Go R on (Clare Dennis Av).
65. Pass Fred Lane Cr on your R.
66. Just after number 30 go L on a concrete path.
67. Pass a bridge on your R.
68. Pass a playground on your L.
69. As the concrete path goes around to the R, go L through a low wooden fence.
70. Go L on (Merrett Gardens).
71. Go L on Preddey Way.
72. Pass Clare Dennis Av on your L.
73. Go R on Fingleton Cr.
74. Pass Merv Waite St on your R.
75. At number 44 go L on a concrete path.
76. Go L on a concrete path between houses.
77. Go R on Lewis Loxton Av and back to the Shops.