Overview
About Five Mile Bridge
Why stop
- A short walk pairs lake views with visible glacial marks.
Five Mile Bridge is a small roadside stop in Killarney National Park, with a parking pull-in beside the lake and a short track down to the shore. From there, look across the Long Range River toward the Eagles’ Nest hillside. It’s worth a few minutes if you’re already driving through the park, especially if glacial landforms interest you.
Parkwolf’s verdictA worthwhile pause on the N71Map
Where it is
The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Killarney Tour Guide
Your drive to Five Mile Bridge, narrated.
Parkwolf is a GPS audio tour guide for Killarney National Park. As you drive, it chimes in with what’s ahead: hidden gems, upcoming stops, history, geology, and wildlife, right through your car’s speakers.
Recorded for this place
Five Mile Bridge and Eagles’ Nest“Five Mile Bridge is ahead, with a short track from the pull-in to the shore. Across the water is Eagles' Nest, where golden eagles once nested. Look down at the exposed shore rock for long scratches left by moving ice.”
Plays as you drive up to Five Mile Bridge in the Parkwolf Killarney Tour Guide.
More stories near here in the app
- Dinis and the Meeting of the Waters
- Upper Lake Viewpoint: Rock Shaped by Ice
- Torc Waterfall
- Torc Mountain from Torc Upper
- 18 audio storiesacross Killarney’s roads, triggered by GPS as you drive
- Wildlife heatmapsfor Red Deer, Sika Deer, Feral Goat, and 10 more
- Works offlinemaps, 29 trails, 32 places, and audio download before you lose signal
- CarPlay readysimple controls built for the drive
“Fantastic app with many points of information… It’s great to just turn on while you’re driving and it gives you an audio tour of the national Park. We love it!!!!”
Guide
More about Five Mile Bridge
Ice left marks in the shoreEagles’ Nest is a roche moutonnée, a hill shaped as glacier ice moved across bedrock.
Eagles’ Nest is a roche moutonnée, a hill shaped as glacier ice moved across bedrock. Its broad, gradual side and steeper opposing face give it an uneven profile you can pick out across the water. Then look down: the exposed shore rock has long scratches called glacial striae, left by moving ice.
Eagles at the nestGolden Eagles nested on the hillside until the last century, which gives the name a real story…
Golden Eagles nested on the hillside until the last century, which gives the name a real story behind it. The valley’s patchy natural woodland has a long human history too: much of it was felled from the late 16th century onward, and later overgrazing kept it from growing back continuously.
Wildlife
Wildlife in Killarney
104 sightingsRed DeerMost seen around 7 AMSighting map
207 sightingsSika DeerMost seen around 7 AMSighting map
12 sightingsFeral GoatMost seen around 6 PMSighting map
49 sightingsSwanMost seen around 7 AMSighting map
48 sightingsHeronMost seen around 5 PMSighting map
15 sightingsCormorantMost seen around 8 AMSighting mapSighting maps show where each species has been reported across Killarney. Wildlife moves, so no sighting is guaranteed.
