The way points of this bicycle route:
Brewer Street Carpark.
Right and left to cross Smythes to Lancelot
Left at Brays
Right at Majors Bay Road
Left at Norman. Beware fast traffic that drifts into the cycle lane on the curves.
Right at Nullawarra
Nullawarra turns left in front of the Concord RSL
Right on Moala
Right at the roundabout on Hospital road. Try not to get mashed by a car, despite the convenient emergency ward.
Left at Fremont
Right at Killoola
Left up the cycle path by the preschool
Right on the footpath of Concord Road (this is a cyclepath - you're legal).
Cross Mary Street at lights.
Bike path crosses car park at dead end. Beware puddles, reversing vehicles.
Turn right into Llewellyn St East. Or you could go left here and cross with the lights to head for the John Whitton cycle bridge. That is 1 km shorter.
Right at the end of Llewellyn onto footpath and over the bridge
Right onto bike path at end of bridge
Cross loop road. BEWARE: blind crossing. Use traffic mirror.
Bike path loops under bridge.
Left at Bowden
Right at roundabout onto Bay
Follow bay around right up the hill
This is where the John Whitton traffic rejoins
Straight at bridge
Left at Constitution
Right at end onto path by rail line
Cut through carpark
Out onto Hermitage
Cross Victoria here
Left at Wattle, following bike route signs
Right on Ryedale
Left At Anthony
Left onto cyclepath just before roundabout
Path through Symons Reserve
Left over rail bridge
Stay right into carpark and onto path by rail line
Cross over to other side of Chatham.
Sod of a hill, and traffic, and need to move out to middle lane so as to not be forced to turn left
Go under the road bridge
Beware shopping traffic
Beware cars doing odd things to drop people off at the station without having to use the car park.
Don't go up Eastwood Avenue. It is a little shorter but it has garden beds in the parking lane and more traffic. Stay on Railway Avenue
Becomes Cocos Ave
Right onto Eastwood Avenue
Hill !
Go straight at the dangerous roundabout (OK, they all are but this one even more so than usual)
This might be the highest point in the ride. You're done climbing for a bit, anyway.
Right onto Midson at lights
Immediately left into Edenlee, aka Mobbs lane
continue on Edenlee by turning right into it
Left at Chelmsford
Go right at First Avenue. Beware ducks !
Left on Dunlop
Right at Hermington
and right
left on Willoughby.
Right onto Pennant Parade
Left at Keeler
Right at Hepburn. No Spencer Tracy imitations, please.
Left on Carlingford Road. Major traffic, and you need to be in the right turning lane soon. Pick a good moment and own your lane.
Turn right into steep Rembrandt. This way we avoid more of Pennant Hills road, which is not cycle friendly.
Beware carpak traffic on left
more carparks (underground this time) and loading docks with reversing semis
Left at Dunrossil
Immediately right into Loch Awe Cresent
right again
Become a pedestrian momentarily and go left into Torquil. Cars shouldn't do this, but they do sometimes.
left at Alamein
Right at Benghazi Rd. Some war buff got to name all these roads.
weeee ! (Rollercoaster)
left at North Rocks
Wave to the Lollypop man
Right onto Pennant Hills Rd (traffic, but OK here because it is a down hill run and it widens to three lanes.
After you cross the M2, I recommend you do the next block (in this direction) on the footpath. The cars will do at least 70 kmh up this hill, and you aren't Lance.
back on the road somewhere here
Left onto Oratavia
Right into the State Forrest
Right into the State Forrest. Very dark at night in here. beware speedhumps
bump !
left steep up past nursery buildings (plants, not babies)
This is the cafe stop
lift bike over chain
Continue out through the forrest
Left at Castle Hill Rd.
Left at Coonara. FANTASTIC view from up here
Beware IBM driveway traffic
More IBMers
Lef
Left into Woolies carpark
Go anti-clockwise around the building
Dismount. Lift bike over gutter into View St
Right at Ellerslie - Rollercoaster
Go right at roundabout, and then U turn onto footpath on far side of Aiken
follow footpath past bus stop
Right into path through to Gray Spence
Left at GS
Right at Stanton
end of long climb
Left at eaton
Right at Oakes roundabout
Right at Carmen
right again into park and onto path under M2 motorway
left up ramp to busstop
left down (bump !) onto road
Beware buses crossing
cross motorway with care
shift left accross PH Rd entry with care
shift left with care again
Through the tunnel !
Left off at phone tower
through gate, then left through tunnel
Up onto Vimera
through carpark or footpath to cyclist crossing lights into Ball
Right at May
Becomes Railway Parade
Right at roundabout into East Parade
Can reverse first half of route home here, by going down path. But we're going right over the bridge
left at end of bridge
Right into Miriam
Right at West Parade
Cross Victoria Road as a Pedestrian, mount to footpath and go left to Maxim
left at Union
Right at Bank
Up left roadway to bridge
left over bridge
Right at Railway Rd
Right onto John Whitton path
Right at Blaxland
right at concord Road, and reverse start of route from here
End !
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gentle way to high part of hills district
Tagged with: Recreational, Onroad, Smooth, Intermediate, Offroad, Low traffic, Safe
