Trips

The Wollangambe River has sections of canyon over much of its length. This section lies above the usual tourist sections, and is much rougher, with little in the way of tracks. However, it is possibly the best section of the Wollangambe River, and an excellent canyon. The notes are more vague than usual, as the canyon is in the Wollangambe Wilderness and parties need to be more self reliant.

Access

Leave one car at the Mt Wilson Fire Station (47 The Avenue). Drive the other west along Bells Line of Road, turning off onto Sandham Rd just before the main road crosses the railway line at Bell. Drive up Sandham Rd for about 1.5km to a driveway on the right. There is a sign on a tree saying "Wollangambe River 5km", and the road changes from sealed to unsealed at this point. On the right is National Parks sign saying "Bell Perimeter Trail". Park here on the side of the road.

Route

Entry

Follow the track/route from Bell to Wollangambe Crater. This is about 8km, and around 3h if you know the way, mostly on some form of track. The time estimates assume this approach.

From Wollangambe Crater, the river is slow going to where the canyon starts around MGA524914.

If you don't have two cars, it is possible to start at Mt Wilson, cross and follow the ridge as per Geronimo Canyon, and keep heading around to where you can get down through the cliff lines upstream of the start.

Notes

The canyon begins with a long pool at MGA524914. There are many long pools, and high narrow walled sections. Lilos may be useful, but there are numerous large boulder chokes which take some time to negotiate, which would be made more difficult with lilos.

Exit

Exit up the Geronimo track, which leaves the river at MGA543915, and leads back to the fire station at Mt Wilson.