Explore Mungo
Short Walks
Mungo Lookout
- Distance:
- 200 metres
- Difficulty:
- easy (wheelchair accessible)
- Time:
- 10 minutes
- Starts:
- Main Camp or the lookout carpark
From the picnic shelter and carpark off the main park access road, a quick path will take you to an expansive view over Lake Mungo. A slightly longer path gets there from Main Camp.
Mungo Woolshed
- Distance:
- short
- Difficulty:
- easy (some parts are wheelchair accessible)
- Time:
- up to 1 hour
- Starts:
- Mungo Woolshed carpark, beside the Visitor Centre
Stroll through the historic Mungo Woolshed and sheep yards and admire the craftsmanship, ingenuity and sweat of the early European settlers and Chinese labourers. The building was constructed in about 1869 of locally harvested cypress pine using a drop-log construction and reduced in size in 1922. The timbers display some remarkable textures.
Red Top Lookout
- Distance:
- 500 metres
- Difficulty:
- easy (wheelchair accessible)
- Time:
- 30 minutes
- Starts:
- Red Top Lookout on the Mungo Track
This short walk along a boardwalk takes in the views to the north along the Mungo lunette and to the west across the bed of Lake Mungo. The deeply eroded ravines cut through the layers of windblown sediment and can be spectacular at sunset. Informative signs explain some of the human and environmental history held within those sediments.
Walls of China
- Distance:
- 500m or more
- Difficulty:
- easy to moderate (wheelchair access on boardwalk)
- Time:
- 30 minutes to 2 hours
- Starts:
- Walls of China carpark
Another must-do walk which is best undertaken with a Discovery Ranger who can explain the significance of the lunette and its history, as well the human story. But if a tour is not available, stroll along the boardwalk with its informative signage. Late in the day is a good time as it brings out the extraordinary colours, and early morning can also be evocative.
The Walls of China Boardwalks are open to public access. Supervised access to the Walls of China beyond the boardwalk is available through Discovery Tours or a licensed tour operator.
Grassland Walk
- Distance:
- 1 km
- Difficulty:
- easy (wheelchair accessible)
- Time:
- 1 hour
- Starts:
- Main Camp
This pleasant nature walk meanders through flat country with a mixture of grassland (in season), shrubland of bluebushes and copperbushes and woodland of Belah, Cypress Pine and Wilga. The walk starts and finishes from the southern end of Main Camp. A number of brief information signs explain the plants, wildlife and management issues.
The walk has no shade so should not be undertaken in the heat of the day.
Foreshore Walk
- Distance:
- 2.5 km
- Difficulty:
- medium
- Time:
- 1.5 hours
- Starts:
- The Meeting Place
This diverse walk starts behind the Meeting Place and follows markers across the ancient shoreline of Lake Mungo, climbs onto a low red dune and explores the wooded sand country beyond. The middle part of the walk offers some shade from two species of cypress pines and mallee eucalypts. This is one of the best areas of surviving pine woodland in Mungo National Park. A series of brief signs explain aspects of plant life, wildlife, landscape and park conservation issues.
The track loops back along the vegetated dune crest to rejoin the outward track and then follows it back to the Meeting Place. Alternatively, you can continue along the Zanci Pastoral Heritage Loop.
Mallee Walk
- Distance:
- 500 metres
- Difficulty:
- easy (wheelchair accessible with assistance)
- Time:
- 30 mins
- Starts:
- Mallee Stop on the Mungo Track
Another easy and mostly flat loop walk that explores one of the main local plant communities. The track starts from the Mallee Stop, around the eastern side of Lake Mungo on the Mungo Track, and loops through a fine area of mallee eucalypts and over a low, spinifex-covered dune. Signs explain the diversity of mallee species encountered, as well as other plants and fauna. Picnic tables are provided at the Mallee Stop, under patchy shade.
