Wright

Walk Features: This loop walk takes you from Argus Park through the streets, parks and playgrounds.

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

Region: Molonglo Valley.

Information about the Suburb: Wright was established in 2010 and named after Judith Wright, a poet, environmentalist and Aboriginal land rights advocate.

Walk Directions

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To get to the start of the walk proceed west out along Cotter Road past Streeton Dr. Then Cotter Rd goes L at the next lights. Follow it around and go R into Swallowtail Rd. Then go R into Peter Cullen Way and park next to Argus Park on your R.

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

1. From the carpark turn L on a bitumen path.
2. Pass rope netting and picnic tables on your R.
3. Follow the bitumen path down and then around and up on the other side of the park.
4. At the second set of two yellow seats go L on a gravel path and cross over the bitumen path.
5. Go R onto (Ulysses Cct) and follow it around to the L.
6. Cross over David Fleay St and continue straight ahead at the exercise station.
7. Pass Xenica St, Amaryllis St, Argus St and an exercise station, and Lacewing St on your L.
8. Go R at Ulysses Cct onto the Ullysses Cct offshoot.
9. Cross over Steve Irwin Av at the Wright suburb sign and go L on a concrete path along Steve Irwin Av.
10. Cross over David Fleay St and continue straight ahead past (Nabin Outdoor Park) on your R and a bus shelter on your L.
11. At the end of the park go R on a bitumen path through the park with seats and a barbecue area down to your R.
12. Pass a raised boardwalk on your R.
13. Go R on a wide concrete path at some seats across (Link Park).
14. Pass an exercise station on your L.
15. Go R on a concrete path and then R at a picnic table onto a boardwalk as it winds uphill.
16. Go L at the end of boardwalk with a seat on your R.
17. Pass a picnic table and barbecue on your R.
18. Follow the gravel then concrete path uphill past seats, coloured domes, picnic tables and poles.
19. Proceed out of the park and go L onto David Fleay St.
20. Go R onto Lindsay Pryor St.
21. Pass Serventy St on your L and the Lindsay Pryor offshoot on your R.
22. Pass Clouston St with a seat, Dunphy St, Plumwood St with an exercise station, and Chelsworth St all on your L.
23. Cross over Max Jacobs Av and go L on a concrete path.
24. Pass Strom St on your L.
25. Go R on a concrete path through the park with a playground in its centre.
26. At the end of the park go L on a concrete path alongside (John Gorton Dr).
27. Go L on a concrete path alongside (Serventy St).
28. Go R onto Max Jacobs Av and pass David Fleay St on your L.
29. Cross over Dunphy St and then go R on a concrete path alongside Dunphy St on your R.
30. Go sharp L on a concrete path.
31. Go L on a bitumen path at a seat and a white/blue sign to Wright leaving the underpass away on your R.
32. Cross over (Max Jacobs Av).
33. Go R on a concrete path and follow it around to the L uphill past picnic tables on your L.
34. Cross over Dot Butler St and continue straight ahead alongside Peter Cullen Way.
35. Go R onto Steve Irwin Av.
36. Cross over Diesendorf St and continue straight ahead.
37. Cross over Gonall St.
38. Go L on a concrete path with a park on your R.
39. Go R on a concrete path with a playground on your L and picnic tables over to your R.
40. Go L on a concrete path as it runs alongside (Banjo Paterson Av).
41. Pass three seats on your L.
42. Cross over Tishler St.
43. Go R onto Catalano St.
44. Go L onto Philip Hodgins St. Note Mt Stromlo ahead.
45. Cross over Philip Hodgins St then go L on a bitumen path as it runs alongside Swallowtail Rd on your R.
46. Cross over Banjo Paterson Av and continue straight ahead.
47. Pass two seats.
48. Cross over Peter Cullen Way and continue straight ahead back to the start at Argus Park.