Introduction

The main power of this site is its ability to link pretty much anything to anything else. This makes it easy to get between related items with just one click. If you have connections which you think we should add, email me

Navigation Bar

On the left hand side of every page on the site you will see the Navigation Bar. This has links to the most commonly used pages and enables you to get back to any one of them with ease.

Related Links

On the right hand side of many pages in the site you will see the Related Links. These are internal links - generally to other walks, parks or regions that may be relevant if you are interested in the current page.

Parks

At the moment there are two different sorts of pages relating to parks.

The first is a park listing. There are three of these, one alphabetical, one using NPWS region groupings and one complete list. These can be accessed by the links on the Navigation Bar. The first two present a list of all parks with detailed information, while the third presents a list of all parks in the system.

The second is a park details page. This presents a summary of the park, plus more detailed information on activities, walks within the park, and links to books and external sites. The right hand side lists any Related Links. At this stage only a few parks have details pages. This is due to the amount of time it takes to compile the information for each park. They will be progressively added over time.

Walks

There are three different sorts of pages relating to walks.

The first is a walk listing. This lists the walks grouped by national park. Walks which are hyperlinked have more detailed information (either a walk report or track notes) and this can be reached by clicking on them

The second is a walk details page. The information on the walk details page includes a summary of the walk, either a trip report, track notes or both. It also provides information on related walks, and links to books and external sites.

The detailed information about walks is approximate only. Times are based on reasonably fit walkers, without signficant breaks. Distances are based on map wheel distances or GPS, and will generally underestimate actual distance walked by 10%-30%. Ascent is the distance from the lowest point to the highest point on the walk, and is taken directly from the topographic map. It may not take into account walks that have a lot of short ascents or descents. For information on Gradings, see the relevant page.

The third is a search page that allows to search for walks by time and difficulty.

Books

The link on the navigation bar leads to a book list. Each link on that page will take you to a page of information about that book, and where complete, a book review.

Sketch maps

Where time has permitted, we have included a sketch map or maps for each walk. They are provided in both a web page and PDF form. The web page is better for viewing on screen, however, the PDF versions have been fitted to A4 pages and therefore are better for printing.