Moggs Creek – Coalmine Creek Walk

Start at the western end of the picnic-ground car park by the Ocean View Track sign. The narrow track passes through tall ironbarks and messmates, climbing gradually for about 1.5 km. Turn right onto a management track and climb to the ridge and Moggs Creek Track.

Head west and downhill along Moggs Creek Track. About 5 km from the start, take the clearly marked left turn onto Coalmine Creek Track. Dense wattles and heath grow beneath the eucalypts, with smaller flowers along the track edges and occasional sounds or glimpses of the ocean.

Follow Coalmine Creek Track toward the coast to a management gate, then take the road past private development to the Great Ocean Road. Leave a pickup car at Memorial Arch Car Park near Eastern View before setting out. At the start, Moggs Creek Picnic Ground has toilets, picnic tables and wood-fired barbecues; bring your own wood. Dogs are not permitted on this route in the national park.

Wrinkled Buttons flower along both tracks in late summer. The very rare local Black-tongue Caladenia sometimes grows beside Coalmine Creek Track. Listen for kookaburras, grey fantails and white-plumed honeyeaters, and watch for echidna diggings at the track edges. The area was once surveyed for coal, but the deposit was low quality; a nine-hole golf course near the highway later reverted to native vegetation.

The separate Moggs Creek Circuit Track is a shorter 1.8 km loop from the picnic ground, with no shuttle required. It does not follow the Coalmine Creek route.