Cumberland Falls
Car park options
- Picnic area carpark at the mouth of the Cumberland River (3 hours walk return)
- Sheoak picnic area carpark
Walking track information
- Start: Picnic area carpark at the mouth of the Cumberland River
- Finish: Picnic area carpark at the mouth of the Cumberland River
- Distance: 9 km return
- Duration: 4.5 hours
- Difficulty: Strenuous
Details
About 6 km south of Lorne along the Great Ocean Road is a picnic area at the mouth of the Cumberland River. You can take the Cumberland Falls Walk by following the river for about 3 km past some excellent clifftop scenery to the Cumberland Cascades (not to be attempted when the river level is high). Return the way you came for nearly 1 km but then take the track on the left which follows a ridge north to Garveys Track. Turn right onto the latter but turn right again almost immediately onto the Sheoak Track to Castle Rock. From Castle Rock return along the track for a couple of hundred metres to the track junction and turn right. The track leads to Sheoak Falls then on to the Great Ocean Road carpark which can be followed back to the Cumberland River Reserve.