Walk Features: This loop walk takes you from the Shops up through the streets and parks.
Duration of the walk: About 1 hour and 35 minutes.
Region: South Canberra.
Information about the Suburb: Red Hill was established in 1928 and named after the hill. Its streets are named after ships and explorers.
Walk Directions
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To get to the start of the walk proceed east along Hindmarsh Dr. Turn L into Dalrymple St. L into La Perouse St, L into Monaro Cr, R into Duyfken Pl and park in front of the Shops.
Note that streets in brackets means there is no street sign at this point of the walk.
- Facing away from the Shops go up steps.
- Cross over Discovery St.
- Proceed up Lady Nelson Pl.
- Pass a playground on your R.
- Cross over Cygnet Cr.
- Proceed up Walter Hood Ln.
- Continue straight ahead on a concrete path then an unnamed road.
- Go R onto Beagle St.
- Go L onto Roebuck St.
- Go R on a concrete path and follow it downhill beside a park on your L.
- Go L onto Beagle St.
- Pass Roebuck St on your L.
- Go L onto Mermaid St.
- Go R onto (Endeavour St).
- Go L onto Reliance St.
- Go R onto Mugga Way.
- Pass La Perouse St on your R.
- Go R onto Francis St.
- Go L onto Scarborough St.
- Go R onto Charlotte St.
- Go L onto Fishburn St.
- Go L onto Penrhyn St with a park on your R.
- Go L onto Alexander St.
- Pass Charlotte St on your L and Canberra Grammar School on your R.
- Go R onto Mugga Way.
- Pass Flinders Way on your R.
- Go R onto Vancouver St.
- Veer L up Wickham Cr, passing a parkland/reserve on your R and continue straight ahead.
- Go R onto Torres St.
- Go R onto Monaro Cr.
- Pass Bass Gardens on your L.
- Pass Vancouver St on your R and Hayes Cr on your L.
- Cross over Flinders Way.
- Go R onto Golden Grove.
- Pass Hicks St on L and (Alexander St) on your R.
- Go L on a concrete path uphill past a playground on your R.
- Cross over (Quiros St) and continue straight ahead on a concrete path.
- Go R onto (Pelsart St).
- Go R onto (Hicks St).
- Go L onto Nuyts St.
- Go R onto Monaro Cr.
- Pass a playground in (Navigators Park) on your L.
- Cross over La Perouse St.
- Go R onto Duyfken Pl and back to the Shops.