Hiking route
Great North Walk
291 km· ↗ 7291 m· dirt· waymarked· Demanding· Regional route
The trail is in New South Wales. A 291 km point-to-point route: the finish is not where you started. It runs from “Sydney” to “Newcastle”. Total ascent is about 7291 m. Elevations along the way range from 0 to 565 m. The trail is waymarked on the ground.
This description is assembled from OpenStreetMap data and our own terrain calculation.
Surface
- dirt — 79.4 km (27%)
- unpaved — 49.7 km (17%)
- asphalt — 31.3 km (11%)
- gravel — 12.8 km (4%)
- concrete — 12.1 km (4%)
- paved — 9.4 km (3%)
- sand — 1.7 km (1%)
- other — 3.1 km (1%)
- not recorded — 94.5 km (32%)
Surface data comes from OpenStreetMap tags on the route's ways.
Trail geometry and data come from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). Check them on the ground: waymarking can go out of date.