Ponds and Subiaco Walks and Tracks

Crowgey Street Reserve stands as a bookend on the western side of the Subiaco Creek Reserve running east from here up to Park Road.

As you walk through this area you are travelling amongst the Sydney Turpentine-Ironbark forest that is typical of the Dundas Valley’s remnant vegetation.

As you travel east of Park Road, you will enter Marri Badoo Reserve.  The name of this reserve means ‘many waters’ in the local Dharug language. This recognises the chain of ponds and springs which flow through the valley to form Ponds Creek and its tributaries.

Marri Badoo Reserve

The name of this reserve means ‘many waters’ in the local Dharug language. This recognises the chain of ponds and springs which flow through the valley to form Ponds Creek and its tributaries.

Ponds Creek Reserve South

Heading northwards toward Kissing Point Road, you will see a range of different forest types, including Sydney Turpentine Ironbark Forest, fringing the creek line. This vegetation type is now rare due to land clearing and is protected under the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016.
 

Sturt Park

Sturt Park includes walking paths, a skate park, playground and sporting fields (basketball and tennis courts). 
 

Ponds Creek Reserve North

Ponds Creek Reserve North marks the southern end of the Upper Ponds corridor of bushland. Upper Ponds Creek corridor has a large bushland reserve at the top of the catchment which is connected via a series of narrow reserves lining the path of the creek and winding through residential areas. 
 

Ponds Creek Reserve North

A feature of the Ponds Creek Reserve South are the open grassy settings you travel through along the way.
 

Ponds Creek Reserve North

A feature of the Ponds Creek Reserve North as you travel southwards are the open grassy settings along the way.
 

Rapanea Community Forest

Located on the eastern edge of Telopea, Rapanea Community Forest is a densely vegetated linear environmentally managed area occurring along the Ponds Creek corridor.
 

Cox Park

Early Settlement of this Area

The Ponds Creek was originally a series of swamps and ponds draining through the Dundas Valley to join with Subiaco Creek and flow on into the Parramatta River.
 

Galanringi Reserve

Galaringi Reserve is home to many native species that call Parramatta home. 
 

Galanringi Reserve

The Upper Ponds bushland corridor follows the Ponds Creek southward through Carlingford and Telopea, to Kissing Point Road in the south.