24 Best Brisbane Bush Walks

Here are 24 of the best bush walks less than an hour's drive from the Brisbane CBD.

White Rock Spring Mountain is a scenic 2500ha conservation estate with walking trails just 20 mins from Ipswich's CBD.

long grass, lagoon and paper bark trees in Karawatha Forest in Stretton

Out of the half dozen or so trails available to walk in this vast preserved bushland, the coolest and most scenic are on the southern side in the vicinity of some remnant ethereal lagoons...

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Whites Hill Reserve

Walkers have a choice between the 1km Whites Hill circuit or the 2km Sankey’s Mountain circuit, both through open eucalypt forest and both relatively easy grade and suitable for strollers.

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Mt Coot-tha

Mt Coot-tha’s Summit Circuit combines the original scenic and highly popular Summit Track with the Mahogany Trail

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JC Slaughter Falls

This is a beautiful bushy gorge with grassy creek banks for picnics and barbecues, an open air bush chapel and a resident flock of sulphur-crested cockatoos.

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Raven St Reserve Walk

In summer, this bush and heathland, part of the landscape mosaic of the Mountain to Mangroves nature corridor, makes a wonderfully breezy retreat

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Tingalpa Creek Reserve

This easy bush circuit of around 2km return embraces both the scenic and secluded banks of Tingalpa Creek with its fishing outposts and marshes as well as paperbark and eucalypt forest.

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Castle Hill Blackstone Reserve

Look out for the relics of an old Ipswich castle and coal mines on this interesting bush walk or bike trail

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Venman Bushland National Park

Venman Bushland National Park is 415 hectares of preserved bushland in Mount Cotton with 2 popular walking tracks to choose from

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Stockyard Creek Circuit

Stockyard Creek Circuit is an easy child and dog friendly bush walk through Brisbane Koala Bushland, suitable for all ages and abilities

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Bellbird Grove Walk

Pinic area inside Bellbird Grove, D'Aguilar National Park

One of the earliest bushwalking spots on the drive west from Brisbane, Bellbird Grove is also one of the most interesting

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Anstead Bushland Reserve

Anstead Bushland Reserve features walking/recreational tracks, lookouts and access to the old Sugars Quarry

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Simpson Falls Walk

The 2.8 km bush walk from Simpson Falls starts well inside the access road, so walk or drive to where the main gum tree studded picnic and barbecue grounds are

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Greenes Falls Circuit

Located on Mt Glorious, this 4.3km easy-grade walk incorporates the lush Rainforest Circuit which passes through a palm valley on the way to the falls

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Walkabout Creek Walk

Woman walking on Araucaria circuit track in Brisbane Forest Park next to the Enoggera Reservoir in The Gap

Note that the Walkabout Creek Centre with its wildlife enclosure remains closed.

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Springwood Conservation Park

This former quarry site, saved from development by the community and Logan City Council, is now a slice of paradise in the middle of suburbia

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Cornubia Forest Park

Cornubia Forest Park is a delightful lush oasis of fig and gum treed bushland with a wide easy grade paved path cutting through its base, that is ideal for walking, cycling, prams and wheelchairs.

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Daisy Hill Conservation Park

A labyrinth of dirt trails cuts through this lovely gum-forested koala reserve, with three circuits of varying lengths open to horse and bike riders.

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Toohey Forest Reserve

Toohey Forest is remarkable for the fact that at only 10km from the CBD, here is a 260 ha preserved sample of the forest vegetation that once covered most of Brisbane.

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Bunyaville Conservation Park