Maps
We provide a number of maps displaying information on this site:
All our maps show the sections walked by Billie and her Companion -- the trails are numbered to match chapters in the book: The Great North Walk Companion. Buy your copy from Digital Print Australia's on-line bookstore.
MAPS
This 'lettered' map (right) is from the back cover of the EZ Guide to the Great North Walk. Trails A-V are detailed here.
The Great North Walk Companion extract – page xi
The Great North Walk can be undertaken all in one super trek (allow about 2 weeks with quite a few nights’ bush camping) or as several day or weekend walks. There are plenty of access points along the route and the spurs to/from the Great North Walk proper are often as interesting as the main trail. You can go in either direction, or as this book does, switch northward and southward journeys as the mood takes you and your time allows. En route there are a number of Walkers’ Registers to complete, which seek comments on the state of the track and personal views. The ‘Great North Walk Companion’ is not a history of the development of the trails and their combination into the one great walk of 250 km between Sydney and Newcastle. Gary McDougall's and Leigh Shearer-Heriot's 1988 book ‘The Great North Walk’ (now out of print) describes the story of the walk’s creation from their proposal for a 'Sydney to Hunter Track' to an award-winning Australian Bicentennial project. This complete trail was opened for the Bicentennial in 1988, since when the NSW Department of Lands has retained responsibility for maintaining The Great North Walk.
