Blanket Bay to Parker Hill Walk

Blanket Bay to Parker Hill is a point-to-point section of the Great Ocean Walk, starting at Blanket Bay Campground and finishing at the Parker Inlet approach. The published visitor figure is 4 km one way; the detailed mapped line to the inlet is about 4.5 km. Allow roughly two hours. This is not a loop: arrange onward transport before you start or retrace the route for about 9 km and roughly four hours.

The track leaves the campground through coastal forest dotted with grass trees, dipping into gullies and climbing out again. Those repeated short rises account for most of the effort. Two lookouts break up the greenery with views over the ocean and Parker estuary. The walk then drops toward the inlet for its finish.

This is the Blanket Bay to Parker Inlet section, not the separate 5.35 km inlet circuit that returns by the shoreline, and not the longer continuation toward Cape Otway. The circuit's rocky shore return and the Great Ocean Walk section are different itineraries; do not join them into one mapped route. The inlet end is a trail destination, so do not count on a road-side pickup without arranging it.

Use the day-visitor parking at Blanket Bay Campground and follow the Great Ocean Walk access. The road in is via Lighthouse Road and Blanket Bay Road. There is no reported water point along this section, so carry what you need. Dogs are not allowed on the Great Ocean Walk.