Last Updated: 9th Apr 2024
Mangemangeroa Track
Last Updated: 9th Apr 2024
Grunt Factor: 10 ?
Gnarl Factor: 24 ?
8.5km
240m
240m
80m
Last Updated: 9th Apr 2024
Last Updated: 9th Apr 2024
Grunt Factor: 10 ?
Gnarl Factor: 24 ?
8.5km
240m
240m
80m
Urban fringe
Out and Back
Undulating, small hills only
Dog Friendly
Native bush
Beach
Riverside
Sealed Road
Easy Single Track
Moderate Single Track
Average Uphill Gradient: +8.7%
Average Downhill Gradient: -8.7%
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1:30
Slow
1:00
Moderate
0:45
Fast
From the car park, go down the road to the start of the track. Say hi to the alpaca's near the start of the track.
Easy to follow track although it can be muddy at times (after heavy rain fall).
Keep following the track pass the mangroves until you reach the boat yard on Shelly Beach. The last part before the boat yard goes through someone's back yard, but this is a marked track. After enjoying the view on the beach, turn around and go back the same way. At low tide you can continue along the foreshore to Cockle bay (please take care as this can be slippery).
Native bush, trees and birds
Mangroves and a shelly beach at the end of the track
You can park on top of Halyley Lane. Please do not drive don as there is no parking there.
A bus stops on Killkenny Drive (behind Botany Downs Secondary College), which requires an addition 100m climb up the hill through Kellaway Reserve (turn right when you are at Point View Drive).
25 km
30 minutes
Yes
No
Easy.
Pretty straight forward, just follow the path.
Perfect throughout.
Whistle, First aid kit, Cellphone
None, please bring your own.
Can be muddy after heavy rainfall. Few slips currently from recent storms.
Slips, mud, fallen trees, low hanging branches.
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Track Status Update - as of 9 February this track is CLOSED from Hayley Lane end, due to a large slip. You can still run parts of it, but need to start at the Shelly Beach boat yard end (park at the end of Sandspit Road), or access via the car park off Somerville Road. Otherwise it's still in great shape with minimal mud, despite the rain!
February 9, 2023
Ran this for the first time and I was pleasantly surprised to find such a gem of a trail so close to home. The trail is in great shape and obviously a lot of effort has been put in to make it look so good. It's a mixture of gravel trails and boardwalks over mangroves. As soon as you get down to the trail from the very steep hill out of the top carpark!! (You can't park there after 7pm else you get chained in!) you feel like you're out in the middle of nowhere. Great views, great bush, birdlife. Nice and undulating trails with some steep stairs to keep you working out......then that really steep climb out to finish...soooo cruel!
May 3, 2022
What choice but a 5 star rating when you live on the city but have this trail right on your backdoor
April 3, 2021
RC
Awesome trail that I would never have known even existed let alone tried if it wasn't for the Wild things directory. Easy running out and back on well maintained track. Its mostly flat with a few stairs thrown in the mix to get the heart rate up a bit.
March 14, 2021
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