short walks within 1-2 hours of Melbourne

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• short walks within 1 hour of Melbourne
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• The Briars historic homestead and Park, Mount Martha
• Mount Martha Park
• Sunnyside Beach, Mornington - clothing optional
• Arthur's Seat State Park, McCrae - great views and gardens, King's falls
• Point Nepean National Park
  • old Quarantine Station
  • old Fort Nepean
  • London Bridge coastal area and Portsea back beach
• Diamond Bay and Bay of Islands
• Bridgewater Bay, rock pool and Pirates Bay cave
• Number Sixteen Beach, Dragon's Head and Lizard Head Rock
• St Andrew's beach to Boag Rocks
• Gunnamatta Ocean Beach
• Fingal beach and sea caves
• Cape Schanck Lighthouse and Two Bays walking track
• Coolart Historic Homestead and wetlands near Balnarring and Somers beaches
• Warringine Park, Hastings
• Hastings Foreshore Reserve
• Mount Worth State Park
• Mirboo North Regional Park
• Lyrebird Forest Walk, Mirboo North
• George Bass coastal walk - Kilcunda
• Baxter Beach, Kilcunda Harmer's Haven Coastal Reserve

• Dandenong Ranges
  • William Ricketts Sanctuary short walk around scultures
  • Sky High Mount Dandenong - great views across Melbourne plus a restaurant (entry fee)
  • Olinda Falls
  • RJ Hamer Arboreteum - lovely mix of tree plantations on a hill side
  • National Rhododendron Garden - great in early Spring
  • Kokoda Memorial Walk - “The Thousand Steps” - if you need exercise
  • Alfred Nicholas Memorial Garden - large gardens worth a visit and photos
  • George Tindale Memorial Gardens - smaller garden
  • Sherbrooke Forest and falls
• Emerald Lake Park - Puffing Billy station
• Cardinia Reservoir Park
• Kurth Kiln camp ground (not Kirth!) and Ship Rock Falls, near Gembrook
• Bunyip State Park

• Healesville Sanctuary (fee)
• Badger Weir picnic area
• Wombelano Falls Kinglake
• Kalatha Giant Tree Walk, Toolangi
• Wilhelmina Falls, Murrundindi

• Heathcote:
  • Pink Cliffs
  • McIvor Range
  • Heathcote-Graytown NP - Dargile Forest Walk
• Balaclava Mine, Whroo
• Greater Bendigo NP - Whipstick

• Conglomerate Gully walk, Riddells Creek - short walk to tiny waterfall
• Hanging Rock - awesome location for exploring, walking and picnics
• Trentham Falls and Bullarto railway station no walking though but worth checking out
• Kyneton botanic gardens
• Black Hill, Kyneton - nice relatively easy 1-2hr circuit walk over the hill
• Turpin's Falls, Metcalfe - not much walking but worth checking out
• Metcalfe Cascades - not much walking but worth checking out
• Mt Alexander
• Castlemaine gold fields
• Maldon
• Daylesford

• O'Brien's Crossing, Lerderderg, Blackwood - bush walks
• Garden of St Erth, Blackwood, nearby bush walks
• Lal Lal and Moorabool Falls
• Lal Lal iron mine area
• Creswick State Park

• Brisbane Ranges
  • Steiglitz historic gold mining
  • Anakie Adventure park for kids