Walk Features: This loop walk takes you from the Shops through the streets, playgrounds and parks including Matthew Shrew Community Park and past a wetland.
Duration of the walk: About 1 hour and 10 minutes.
Region: Gungahlin.
Information about the Suburb: Gungahlin was established in 1998 and named after an Aboriginal word meaning either “white man’s house” or “little rocky hill”.
Walk Directions
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To get to the start of the walk proceed north along Gungahlin Dr. Turn R into The Valley Av, L at Gozzard St, R Ernest Cavanagh St, L into Boon Ln then L between buildings into a car park.
Note that streets in brackets means there is no street sign at this point of the walk.
- Facing the laneway you drove in on, go L across the car park out to (Anthony Rolfe Av).
- Go R on (Anthony Rolfe Av).
- Pass Boon Ln on your R.
- Go L to cross over (Anthony Rolfe Av) on a bitumen path.
- Proceed on a bitumen path along Gungahlin Pl with Matthew Shrew Community Park on your R.
- Pass Bruning St on your L.
- Cross over Swain St and go R on a bitumen path.
- Cross over Gungahlin Pl and continue straight ahead on a concrete path.
- Cross over Donnelly Ln.
- Pass Devlin St, Fishlock Ln and Mawby St on your R.
- Cross over Pallin St.
- Cross over Tesselaar St and continue straight ahead on a concrete path.
- Cross over (Marie Dalley St).
- Cross over (Cantamessa Av).
- Cross a reserve.
- Cross over (Ian Potter Cr).
- Cross over (Penfold St).
- Cross over (Ian Potter Cr).
- Cross over (Eva West St).
- Proceed on a concrete path past a playground on your L.
- Go L on Elliman St.
- Pass Adlard Pl on your L.
- Go R on Petersilka St.
- Go L on Tsoulias St to pass wetlands on your L.
- At number 4 proceed straight ahead on a concrete path across a reserve.
- Go R on (Alice Cummins St) to follow a bitumen path through the reserve.
- Go L on a concrete path to cross Alice Cummins St.
- Cross over McClung St.
- Cross over Rosanna St.
- Cross over Sarson St.
- Cross over Ansett St.
- Go R to cross Card St into a playground.
- Pass the playground on your R.
- Go R on Alice Cummins St.
- Pass Waghorn St on your L.
- Go L on (Lum Loy Ln).
- Cross over Newbold Ln.
- Go R on Anthony Rolfe Av.
- Opposite number 335 go L to cross over Anthony Rolfe Av.
- Proceed alongside De Bortoli St on your L.
- Pass Bannen Ln on your R.
- Go R up (Mary Gillespie Av).
- Opposite number 77 go L on a concrete path into a playground.
- Pass the playground on your L.
- Cross (Mary Gillespie Av) and go R on a concrete path.
- Cross over Wizzard St.
- Pass Flude Ln on your L.
- Go R on (Peters St) to cross over Mary Gillespie Av.
- Cross over Bannen Ln.
- Cross over Anthony Rolfe Av on a bitumen path.
- Pass Newbold Ln on your R alongside (Alice Cummings St) on your L.
- Go L on a bitumen path to proceed through a reserve.
- Go L on a concrete path with wetlands on your R.
- Go L on Tsoulias St.
- Go R on Ayrton St.
- Pass Petersilka St and Elliman St on your R.
- Cross over Eva West St.
- Pass Ian Potter Cr and Penfold St on your R.
- Go L on Ian Potter Cr.
- Pass Salzer St on your L.
- Go R on Anthony Rolfe Av.
- Cross over Tesselaar St.
- Pass Mawby St on your R.
- Pass Donnelly Ln on your R.
- Cross over Gungahlin Pl twice with Matthew Shrew Community Park on your R.
- Pass Boon Ln on your L.
- Pass Boreham Ln on your R.
- Opposite number 61 go L to cross over Anthony Rolfe Av and back to the car park.