🛴 Bong Bong Track is the perfect walk to catch the winter sun with the whole family including your favourite furpal on lead. The track meanders along the Wingecarribee River flat between Moss Vale and Burradoo. Enjoy by foot, bike or scooter, & spot local woodland birds and wildlife whilst you are at it. Stop in at historic The Post Office Moss Vale for refreshing treats in their sunny courtyard afterwards where pooches are also welcome.
🐶 Cherry Tree Walk at Bowral is another flat pathway perfect for walkers, little bikers and on lead pooches. Starts at the pool and follows a creek through the leafy back streets of Bowral. The cherry trees were planted in memory of each soldier lost in the Vietnam War. A lovely walk any time of the year but stunning when in blossom in spring. Coffee and French patisserie in the sunny courtyard at Le Bistro Gourmand are a well deserved reward for the family, and the pooch under the table too of course!
📰 Berrima River Walk – a 1.8km bushland walk along the Wingecarribee River, reasonably level, with markers highlighting the lives of German seamen who were interned here in WWI. The beautiful historical village of Berrima is within cooee to explore too, as is the very welcome Schmokin Café where there are plenty of outdoor tables to enjoy a coffee and burgers afterwards with the furpal at foot.
🌳 Exeter Village and surrounds – explore the tree lined country lanes, historic village and pretty oval with your pooch. If you’re after a short bush walk, just a few kms out of town we’ve recently discovered another pooch friendly one starting at the junction of Old Argyle Road & Ferndale Roads. Best in sunny weather when the creeks aren’t too full, it’s popular with mountain bikers and horse riders too. It borders farmland and Penrose State Forest so dogs are allowed. Once done, head back in the car for all manner of yum takeaway treats and drinks at Exeter General Store with its pooch loving courtyard or tables out front under the beautiful old verandah awning.
🏃 Box Vale Walking Track at Mittagong follows the dismantled rail line once used to access coal deposits. Through bushland, we chose the easy grade 4.4km walk option via creek beds, shaded fern lined cuttings & a beautiful sandstone tunnel to the lookout, then returned on the same path. Stop in at The Boston Ivy 1880 café afterwards where pooches (and their humans) are welcome in the very pretty sandstone courtyard draped in ivy out the back.