The Mornington Peninsula Walk

Long known as a destination with beautiful beach walks and spectacular clifftop strolls, the Mornington Peninsula now boasts one of Victoria’s top walks. The 100km Mornington Peninsula Walk combines four other walks: the 'Bay Trail' from Dromana to Portsea along Port Phillip Bay, the 'Point Nepean Walk' in and around the Point Nepean National Park, the 'Coastal Walk' through the Mornington Peninsula National Park along the Bass Strait coast from Portsea to Cape Schanck, and the 'Two Bays Walk' through the hinterland from Dromana to Cape Schanck. You can complete the whole walk over several days, or enjoy it over several visits.

1.  The Two Bays Walking Track

There are lots of relatively easy walks, including the 5km Bushrangers Bay walk from clifftop Cape Schanck to Boneo Road.  Greens Bush is a tranquil gem and a wildlife haven, with kangaroos and wallabies feeding in the early morning or at dusk, and birdlife including wrens, colourful parrots, kites and soaring eagles. There are a couple of rewarding circuit walks of 1.6km and 3.6km through beautiful forest from Baldry Crossing, and a 4km circuit walk from Long Point Road that takes in forest, grasslands and gullies. There’s also an 8.9km walk which is part of the Two Bays Walking Track, with silent forests, huge stands of grasstrees that may be more than 200 years old, lush fern gullies and grasslands.

2. The Coastal Walk

The Mornington Peninsula National Park adjoins Point Nepean National Park, with the Coastal Walk encompassing 26km of beach and cliff walks along Bass Strait from London Bridge right to Cape Schanck. Some of the sections are very suitable to do as short walks in their own right; including the 2km Farnsworth Track from London Bridge carpark to Portsea ocean beach, the 3km Fingal Beach walk to lookouts over Bass Strait, and the 4km Coppins Track walk from Sorrento ocean beach along the dramatic clifftop to Diamond Bay.

3.  Point Nepean Walk

Walk right to the tip of the Mornington Peninsula in Point Nepean National Park, past the old Quarantine Station, World War Two military defences, along coastal and bush tracks. 

This takes you along the beaches and villages of Port Phillip Bay from Dromana right to Portsea, where you can join the Point Nepean National Park walk.

Download the Mornington Peninsula 100km Walk Fact Sheet Here