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This is a cue sheet for the Western Sydney Parklands Track Bicycle Map. You can print it out for later use.

Cumulative Distance Where Notes Direction Elevation
0km 0km Quakers Hill North end of Parklands Track. The track starts off heading west from Quakers Hill Parkway, just south of the M7. Access to the start from the M7 shared path is via the western Quakers Hill Pkway access point. (Track medium grade gravel) NW 296° 28m
1.09km 1.09km (Path alongside Richmond Rd, paved) WNW 292° 27m
1.53km 0.43km Dean Park (Cross over Richmond Rd. Dangerous intersection. Maybe walk bikes across Richmond Rd a short distance back. Medium grade gravel track on other side of Richmond Rd). SW 203° 29m
1.92km 0.4km Glendenning (Access track to the right to Joe McAleer Park and Winten Drive). SSE 136° 33m
3.33km 1.4km Power St: Cross at the refuge island. Path between Power St & Nurragingy coarse pebbles. Not easy riding. SSW 188° 32m
4.29km 0.97km (Gates into Nurragingy Reserve. Opening times vary throughout year. Path paved). SSE 156° 38m
4.94km 0.65km (Gates into Nurragingy Reserve. Opening times vary throughout year). SSW 199° 34m
5.36km 0.42km (Narrow footpath up to & across bridge) WSW 227° 34m
6.11km 0.75km Rooty Hill Cross Eastern Rd at traffic lights. SSE 144° 37m
6.15km 0.03km (Course gravel path. To avoid the rough stuff, continue along the shared path on this side of Eastern Rd up the hill, turn left onto the M7 access path, and right onto the M7 shared path. The Parklands Track joins the M7 path just after the Great Western Hwy bridge). WSW 235° 37m
8.82km 2.68km Eastern Creek Cross Great Western Hwy at traffic lights. CAUTION : Beware of cars coming around the corner exiting the M7. Follow path around to the right, alongside the Great Western Hwy. Turn left after going underneath the M7 bridge as signposted. Turn right when you get to the main alignment of the M7 shared path. SW 203° 40m
15.2km 6.38km Horsley Park Veer left at the Horsley Dr access ramp, then left onto Horsley Dr shared path. ESE 100° 81m
16.63km 1.42km Cross Ferrers Rd and the Horsley Dr at traffic lights. ENE 67° 99m
16.86km 0.23km Turn right into the existing Prospect-Farfield City Farm shared path. SSW 195° 87m
17.65km 0.79km Right turn onto a new piece of bitumen track. (Signpost but no direction markers currently at this turn). W 264° 80m
17.84km 0.19km Head straight ahead up Southdown Rd. WNW 277° 90m
18.22km 0.38km Follow road around to the left. SSW 189° 87m
18.64km 0.42km (Steep pinch on bitumen road that's braking up ahead...An alternative is to turn left here up a bitumen & grass path. Take the first right (mown grass path) which leads up to Ginger Meggs memorial. Turn right to get back onto the original road). SW 209° 92m
18.93km 0.29km (Ginger Meggs [the dog] memorial to the left. SW 214° 123m
19.26km 0.33km (Narrowly spaced bollards - Tight fit. Moonrise Lookout). SW 211° 133m
19.59km 0.33km (Sugarloaf ridge lookout/picnic area to the left. Toilets, picnic tables, water [not obvious - to the right of the sign amongst trees just before picnic shelters). WSW 241° 143m
19.89km 0.3km Turn left down bitumen track. CAUTION Steep downhill and loose gravel when turning back onto the M7 path a few hundred metres down. WSW 247° 135m
20.76km 0.87km Cecil Park Turn left onto M7 path. SSW 188° 99m
24.78km 4.03km Turn right across the third bridge over the M7. SW 215° 63m
26.06km 1.27km (Unformed track off to right). SSW 186° 104m
26.42km 0.37km (Y-ish intersection, with bitumen paths off to the left and straight ahead. Go straight ahead). S 163° 96m
26.89km 0.46km West Hoxton (Go along Twenty Seventh Ave. Parts are unsealed). SW 205° 98m
27.97km 1.08km (Cross Fifteenth Ave. Refuge a short distance along Fifteen th Ave. Dangerous intersection). ESE 100° 89m
29.67km 1.7km (For access to shops and toilets, turn right across channel then immediate left into 29th Ave. Shops approx 1km, on Edmondson Rd corner. Toilets at Austral Bowling Club, 2 blocks to the left down Edmondson on 8th Ave corner. Club opens at 10am on weekends). S 167° 89m
29.75km 0.08km (Road narrows. Medium grade gravel for around 500m). S 170° 88m
30.18km 0.42km Turn left into Park. (Just after the entrance, Parklands track goes straight ahead as a 'mown grass' walking track [probably suitable for MTBs], Bitumen Greenway Loop path starts here & veers left). SSE 135° 85m
31.93km 1.75km (Access track on right to cnr Cadman Ave & Carmichael Dr) ENE 65° 66m
32.34km 0.41km Turn left, and head up the hill. (Access to cnr Second Ave & Mannow Ave to the right). WNW 279° 64m
33.32km 0.98km (End of Shared path - Unsealed Rd until Lory Ave). WSW 231° 91m
33.47km 0.15km Turn right into Lowry Ave (sealed). WNW 280° 97m
33.97km 0.51km Back to 27th Ave. Turn right, and head back the way you came to the M7 path. WNW 280° 90m