Urban Hiking: The Journey of Scrubby Creek, Logan City - Part 5
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 4.48 mi
- Elevation gain
- 3 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Difficult
- Elevation loss
- 3 ft
- Max elevation
- 32 ft
- TrailRank
- 32
- Min elevation
- 4 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Time
- 2 hours 3 minutes
- Coordinates
- 2597
- Uploaded
- February 22, 2022
- Recorded
- August 2021
near Kingston, Queensland (Australia)
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Itinerary description
YouTube video of this tough stretch... https://youtu.be/ykJRGjhA8MM
Today's stretch of the Scrubby Creek line took me from the Logan Motorway Overpass at Kingston (literally where the Scrubby Creek Toolbox Murders took place) all the way to intersection of Queens Rd and Loganlea Rd.
This was an amazing section and around 8km in length. I would describe this stretch as 'The Hobo Haunt' due the the amount of homeless shelters and signs of vagrant people bunkering down in some capacity.
This travels underneath Kingston Rd (the roundabout pictured on the intro to my video series on Scrubby) to Gould Adams Park and the real adventure begins at the timber bridge there. I climbed over a massive fallen gum tree and entered the 'other world within our world'. An amazing section that leads underneath the Kingston train line bridge.
Here now begins what was an AMAZING stretch like no other. So many lagoons, so many fallen trees that became impromptu crossing bridges for me, so many birds (the crows were quite upset I was in their territory, lol). I came across various 'hobo' shelters which I am assuming found their in-roads from back of Mary Street, Kingston.
I came up to Meakin Rd, Meadowbrook which is split into two broken road sections (I was on the southern side) and here I was able to then continue eastbound following the creek to an area I have always wondered about. The marshland that runs parallel with Queens Rd - and it was absolutely stunning. See the video, there were three unusual distinct trees I have never seen anything like.
I pushed on all the way to where Scrubby intersects with the old Queens Rd (that always flooded), and where there is the new Queens Road overpass... and this is where today's adventure ended. From here I was able to simply run back home. What an adventure, and so close to civilisation!
I have to say that I am still in awe of this whole stretch of Scrubby - it was my most fun segment and I was privileged to be able to explore all of this whilst water levels were low, otherwise this is often flood prone.
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Another World within our world, and only minutes away from home. Who says you have to travel long distances just to start a hike???
Today's stretch of the Scrubby Creek line took me from the Logan Motorway Overpass at Kingston (literally where the Scrubby Creek Toolbox Murders took place) all the way to intersection of Queens Rd and Loganlea Rd.
This was an amazing section and around 8km in length. I would describe this stretch as 'The Hobo Haunt' due the the amount of homeless shelters and signs of vagrant people bunkering down in some capacity.
This travels underneath Kingston Rd (the roundabout pictured on the intro to my video series on Scrubby) to Gould Adams Park and the real adventure begins at the timber bridge there. I climbed over a massive fallen gum tree and entered the 'other world within our world'. An amazing section that leads underneath the Kingston train line bridge.
Here now begins what was an AMAZING stretch like no other. So many lagoons, so many fallen trees that became impromptu crossing bridges for me, so many birds (the crows were quite upset I was in their territory, lol). I came across various 'hobo' shelters which I am assuming found their in-roads from back of Mary Street, Kingston.
I came up to Meakin Rd, Meadowbrook which is split into two broken road sections (I was on the southern side) and here I was able to then continue eastbound following the creek to an area I have always wondered about. The marshland that runs parallel with Queens Rd - and it was absolutely stunning. See the video, there were three unusual distinct trees I have never seen anything like.
I pushed on all the way to where Scrubby intersects with the old Queens Rd (that always flooded), and where there is the new Queens Road overpass... and this is where today's adventure ended. From here I was able to simply run back home. What an adventure, and so close to civilisation!
I have to say that I am still in awe of this whole stretch of Scrubby - it was my most fun segment and I was privileged to be able to explore all of this whilst water levels were low, otherwise this is often flood prone.
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Another World within our world, and only minutes away from home. Who says you have to travel long distances just to start a hike???
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