EastLink Trail

EastLink Trail
The EastLink Trail running through southern Koomba Park
Length	Approx 28 km
Difficulty	Mostly easy
Hills	Mostly flat, hilly in the north
Hazards	Road underpasses regularly flood. Rough path surface in places.
Path	Mainly concrete.[1]
Connecting Transport
Trains	Ringwood Station, Heatherdale Station, Yarraman Station
Trams	None

The EastLink Trail is a shared use path for cyclists and pedestrians, which follows the EastLink tollway for most of its length from Ringwood to Dandenong, in the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.^[2][3]

Following the path

The path passes through or near to:^[1]

• Mullum Mullum Valley, Ringwood Bypass, Schwerkolt Cottage, and Eastland (Mullum Mullum Creek Trail)
• Simpsons Park / Heatherdale Reserve Proclamation Park
• Koomba Park (combined with Dandenong Creek Trail) and Wantirna Reserve
• Blind Creek / Llewellyn Park Complex and the Blind Creek Trail
• Nortons Park, Shepherds Bush, and Drummies Bridge Reserve
• Jells Park (including trail network) and Chesterfield Farm
• Mulgrave Reserve, Dandenong Creek, and Tirhatuatan Park
• Fotheringham Reserve, Mile Creek, and Greaves Reserve

The trail ends at Dandenong Creek in Dandenong South at the Dandenong Creek Trail. The Dandenong Creek Trail then follows the tollway as far as Bangholme. It then heads west, taking users to the National Watersports Complex, Patterson Lakes, Carrum Foreshore, and the Bayside Trail beyond.^[1]

Footbridges cross EastLink at a number of points along the trail, and another takes path users across the Princes Highway.^[4]

Two additional footbridges completed construction in 2009: A footbridge over Maroondah Highway and a 60 m footbridge over Burwood Highway at the intersection with Mountain Highway.

Connections

The EastLink Trail connects to numerous other paths: To the Mullum Mullum Creek Trail in the north and close by is the Koonung Creek Trail. Centrally it connects to the Blind Creek Trail just south of High Street and comes close to the Scotchmans Creek Trail. At Ferntree Gully Road it connects to the Ferny Creek Trail. In the south at Dandenong, it connects to the Dandenong Creek Trail.

Two sections of the EastLink Trail utilise sections of the older Dandenong Creek Trail.

North end at 37°48′44″S 145°13′05″E / 37.812129°S 145.218121°E / -37.812129; 145.218121. South end at 38°00′00″S 145°11′39″E / 37.999997°S 145.194264°E / -37.999997; 145.194264.

References

• Geographic data related to EastLink Trail at OpenStreetMap

• Bike rides around Melbourne 3rd edition, 2009, Julia Blunden, Open Spaces Publishing, ISBN 978-0-9752333-4-4