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York Cycle Rides - The Heron’s Highway York Cycle Rides - The Heron’s Highway

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  • 1-3 hours
  • 7 km
    • Mountain Bike Easiest

      Recommended for novice riders. Typically wide trails with smooth terrain and low gradients. Surface may be uneven, loose or muddy at times but free from unavoidable obstacles.

Follow the flight path of the herons that live beside the Avon River. We can’t make you airborne but there are fabulous views of the two mountains for those who venture furthest!

Built in 1854 and consecrated in 1858, convicts would have worshipped here. The tower and other additions were added between 1891 and 1905. It contains a magnificent Alfred Pease pipe organ and stained glass windows designed by Robert Juniper.
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A quiet, easy ride suitable for families, both leisure cyclists and mountain bikers on dual use (walkers and cyclists) dirt and gravel riverside tracks and the quiet back roads of York.

Loops of varying distance from 2.6 kilometres to 7 kilometres can be ridden singly or combined. Starting from the suspension bridge in Avon Park, past a cluster of heritage buildings the trail meanders beside the Avon River.  It emerges onto bitumen roads that provide gentle slopes and scenic views of Walwaling (Mt. Bakewell) and Wongborel (Mt. Brown).

Candice Bateman Memorial Park is a great place for a rest stop or picnic with facilities and play equipment. You can take a loop past the York Cemetery with its imposing C19th High Victorian Gothic sculptural monuments or return along Newcastle street to the suspension bridge and Avon Park. 

York is just over an hour’s drive from Perth through beautiful bush and rolling farmland and has several linking walk and cycle trails that you can mix and match to suit yourself.

York Visitor Centre

(08) 9641 1301

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Time / Duration

1-3 hours

Length

Loops of varying distance from 2.6km to 7km

What To Pack

Group A (Urban trails or short trails near facilities) required.

Trail Start

Suspension bridge, Avon Park, York. Approximately 100 kilometres and 1 hour plus from Perth.

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Trail End

Mountain Bike

Easiest

Recommended for novice riders. Typically wide trails with smooth terrain and low gradients. Surface may be uneven, loose or muddy at times but free from unavoidable obstacles.

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Difficulty Notes

Cyclists should dismount when crossing the suspension bridge, unstable surface - it swings! There is an optional ford crossing in summer months only (usually passable from October through to April ) where cyclists should dismount as the surface is rocky and unstable.

Hazards & Warnings

Cyclists dismount when crossing the suspension bridge, - it swings! Optional ford crossing in summer months only (usually passable from October to April ) cyclists dismount as surface is rocky and unstable. Beware snakes in summer months.

Facilities

There are public toilets, picnic facilities, water and play equipment for children in Avon Park (the other side of the suspension bridge) and Candice Bateman Memorial Park.
Parking is in Janet Millett Lane or near Avon Park. There is a fenced, dog off-lead exercise area adjacent to Candice Bateman Memorial Park.
  • Car Park
  • Dog Friendly
  • Picnic Area
  • Public Toilet
  • Water Access Points

Best time of year

All year round. Temperatures can be hot during January and February.

Trail Access

Road

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