Byrrill Creek walking track

Where

Mebbin National Park in North Coast

Distance

3km return

Time suggested

1hr - 1hr 30min

Grade

Grade 3

Trip Intention Form

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Entry fees

Park entry fees apply

What to
bring

Drinking water, hat, sunscreen, suitable clothing

Please note

• There are a few distance options for this walk (1km to 3km return).
• Please supervise children at all times

This 1-3km return walking track offers a few options for visiting Byrrill Creek, Sweetmans Creek or both. You can choose to do the longer 2km loop walk that takes you via both creeks, a shorter 1.2km loop via Sweetmans Creek or walk around 500m one way to either creek.

The main walking track entry point is behind the Cutters Camp kitchen hut. Or you can start from the lower carpark on Mebbin Forest Road for a less steep option to walk to and from either or both creeks. The longer track route crosses Mebbin Forest Road with sandstone steps crafted into the track and some short steep sections.

Along the way, you’ll walk through 3 very different forest types, with a real change between each one. As you pass under the rainforest with its large fig trees, rainforest canopy, bangalow palms, and eucalypts, listen to the water gently trickling in the creek and the sounds of the diverse birds and insects that make their home here. The walk is especially lovely and colourful in spring when the breeding plumage of many birds change colour and the walk is thick with the scent of the nectar from flowering trees and shrubs.

All year round, you can spot lace monitors and brush turkeys on the tracks. In spring and summer, keep an eye out for wrens at the creek’s edge and possibly even eastern yellow robins, pademelons, noisy pitas, logrunners, a variety of honeyeaters, doves, pigeons, and skinks.

For directions, safety and practical information, see visitor info