EastLink Trail

EastLink Trail
The EastLink Trail running through southern Koomba Park
Length	Approx 28 km
Location	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Cycling details
Trail difficulty	Mostly easy
Hazards	Road underpasses regularly flood. Rough path surface in places.
Surface	Mainly concrete.^[1]
Hills	Mostly flat, hilly in the north
Connecting transport
Train(s)	Ringwood Station, Heatherdale Station, Yarraman Station
Tram(s)	None

The EastLink Trail is a shared use path for cyclists and pedestrians, which follows the EastLink tollway for most of its length from Ringwood to Dandenong, in the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.^[2]^[3]

Following the path

The path passes through or near to:^[1]

Mullum Mullum Valley, Ringwood Bypass, Schwerkolt Cottage, and Eastland (Mullum Mullum Creek Trail)
Simpsons Park / Heatherdale Reserve Proclamation Park
Koomba Park (combined with Dandenong Creek Trail) and Wantirna Reserve
Blind Creek / Llewellyn Park Complex and the Blind Creek Trail
Nortons Park, Shepherds Bush, and Drummies Bridge Reserve
Jells Park (including trail network) and Chesterfield Farm
Mulgrave Reserve, Dandenong Creek, and Tirhatuatan Park
Fotheringham Reserve, Mile Creek, and Greaves Reserve

The trail ends at Dandenong Creek in Dandenong South at the Dandenong Creek Trail. The Dandenong Creek Trail then follows the tollway as far as Bangholme. It then heads west, taking users to the National Watersports Complex, Patterson Lakes, Carrum Foreshore, and the Bayside Trail beyond.^[1]

Footbridges cross EastLink at a number of points along the trail, and another takes path users across the Princes Highway.^[4]

Two additional footbridges completed construction in 2009: A footbridge over Maroondah Highway and a 60 m footbridge over Burwood Highway at the intersection with Mountain Highway.

The EastLink Trail connects to numerous other paths: To the Mullum Mullum Creek Trail in the north and close by is the Koonung Creek Trail. Centrally it connects to the Blind Creek Trail just south of High Street and comes close to the Scotchmans Creek Trail. At Ferntree Gully Road it connects to the Ferny Creek Trail. In the south at Dandenong, it connects to the Dandenong Creek Trail.

Two sections of the EastLink Trail utilise sections of the older Dandenong Creek Trail.

Bike rides around Melbourne 3rd edition, 2009, Julia Blunden, Open Spaces Publishing, ISBN 978-0-9752333-4-4

Bicycle trails in Melbourne

Anniversary (Outer Circle) Bay (Bayside) Ringwood - Belgrave Blind Creek Broadmeadows Valley Bushy Creek Capital City Craigieburn Bypass Dandenong Creek Dandenong South Darebin Creek Diamond Creek EastLink Edgars Creek Federation Ferndale Park Ferny Creek Frankston Baxter Gardiners Creek Gawler Chain Greengully Hallam Bypass Hallam Valley Hendersons Road Drain Hobsons Bay Coastal Koonung Creek Kororoit Creek Laverton Creek Long Beach Maribyrnong River Maroondah Aqueduct Merri Creek Moonee Ponds Creek Mornington Mullum Mullum Creek North Road Peninsula Link Plenty River River Gum Walk Ruffey Creek Rosstown Sandridge Scoresby Road Scotchmans Creek Skeleton Creek St Georges Road Station Steele Creek Stud Road Syndal Heatherdale Pipe Reserve Tarralla Creek Taylors Creek Toolern Creek Upfield Bike Path Waverley Wellington Road Wellness Trail Werribee River Western Port Bay Western Ring Road Wurundjeri Walk Yarra River Yuroke Creek

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