Macquarie

Walk Features: This loop walk takes you from the Shops along streets, past playgrounds and through reserves. Some of the walk is on dirt tracks.

Duration of the walk: About 1 hour and 30 minutes.

Region: Belconnen.

Information about the Suburb: Macquarie was established in 1967 and named after Major-General Lachlan Macquarie, a former Governor of NSW. Its streets are named contemporaries of Governor Macquarie.

Walk Directions

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To get to the start of the walk proceed north along Coulter Dr. Turn R into Lachlan St and follow it around to the Shops on Macquarie Pl.

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

1. Facing away from the Shops go L around them to a concrete path passing a playground on your R.
2. Go L at a bus shelter into (Bennelong Cr).
3. Go R onto Erskine St and follow it around passing (Clint Pl) and then Jarvis Pl both on your R.
4. Go R on a concrete path into a park.
5. At a playground on your R, go L on a concrete path running out of the park.
6. Go R onto (Castlereagh Cr) and then pass Druitt Pl, Bathurst Pl and Nepean Pl all on your R.
7. Go L onto Elizabeth Cr.
8. Pass Castlereagh Cr on your L.
9. Go R onto Bennelong Cr.
10. Go L onto Roberts St.
11. Go L onto (Brooks St).
12. When you reach Macquarie Primary School, go L on a concrete path with the school fence on your R.
13. Go R onto Bennelong Cr and proceed past a bus shelter and then the school on your R.
14. At the end of the school fence, go R down alongside the fence line to the Macquarie Neighbourhood Oval.
15. Proceed down to cricket nets then go L and clockwise around the oval.
16. Do a near complete circumference of the oval until you come to a concrete path.
17. Follow the path off the oval proceeding uphill between houses on your L and the school and a basketball court on your R.
18. Go L onto (Brooks St).
19. Go R onto Goulburn St, then just past number 10, go L down a concrete path.
20. Cross over (Lachlan St) and continue straight ahead on a concrete path.
21. Pass a playground on your R and cross over (Badgery St) and continue straight ahead on a concrete path.
22. Go R onto (Blackman Cr) passing a playground on your R.
23. Continue on to pass the road opposite number 51.
24. Pass Lochbuy St on your L.
25. Go L at the next entrance into Lochbuy St and then immediately R on a concrete path as it heads towards an underpass.
26. DO NOT go through the (Redfern St) underpass but go L up a concrete path before it.
27. Pass Lyttleton Cr on your R.
28. Pass a bus shelter.
29. Immediately before an iron railing bridge go L on a bitumen path.
30. Go R on a concrete path.
31. Go L onto (Allman Cct).
32. Pass De Gillern Pl on your L.
33. Proceed onto a concrete path passing a playground on your L.
34. Go L onto (Collicott Cct).
35. At number 27 go L on a concrete path.
36. Go R on a bitumen path and follow it all the way down and continue straight ahead when it becomes a concrete path.
37. Cross over (Catchpole St) and continue straight ahead on a bitumen path.
38. Before the path swings around to your R and up to traffic lights on (Belconnen Way), turn sharp L down a concrete path. Note the large Owl sculpture over Belconnen Way.
39. Cross (Catchpole St) and go R alongside (Catchpole St).
40. Pass Fulton St on your L.
41. Proceed straight ahead on a dirt track behind houses on your L.
42. At the end of the houses when you come to an open grassy reserve, go L down a dirt track behind houses on your L and the reserve on your R.
43. Cross over Arndell St.
44. Continue straight ahead down Richmond St.
45. Just after number 7 continue straight ahead onto a concrete path.
46. Cross over (Lachlan St) and back to the Shops.