[aesop_content color=”#000000″ background=”#ffffff” columns=”1″ position=”none” imgrepeat=”no-repeat” floaterposition=”left” floaterdirection=”up”]Starting from Macquarie Park train station, this walk wanders down Lane Cove Road and over De Burghs Bridge to join the main spine of the Great North Walk in the Lane Cove Valley. Here the walk explores the dry grasstree and eucalypt forest along the side of the ridge before heading down into the moist, ferny valley beside Lane Cove River. Near the top of the valley the walk moves up some stone steps built during the Great Depression to find some rock engravings with 1930s-style political satire, known as Conscript Pass. A side-trip provides access to the scout campsite, while the main walk continues through the streets to find Thornleigh train station.
Download the map and tracknotes for this section of GNW at Macquarie Park to Thornleigh section.
Well signposted section in Lane Cove NP
The tall wooded forest near the STEP track
Stepping stones over the upper Lane Cove River
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