EastLink Trail
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| EastLink Trail | |
|---|---|
 The EastLink Trail in southern Koomba Park | |
| Length | Approx 28 km |
| Location | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Difficulty | Mostly easy |
| Hazards | Road underpasses regularly flood; rough path surface in places |
| Surface | Mainly concrete.[1] |
| Hills | Mostly flat, hilly in the north |
| Train(s) | Ringwood Station, Heatherdale Station, Yarraman Station |
| Tram(s) | None |
The EastLink Trail is a shared use path for cyclists and pedestrians in the outer eastern/southeastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The trail gets its name from the north-south EastLink tollway, along which it follows for most of its length from Ringwood to Dandenong,[2][3] until it joins the Dandenong Creek Trail near the Dandenong Bypass bridge at the tri-suburban junction between Dandenong, Dandenong South and Keysborough.
The path passes through or near to:[1]
- Mullum Mullum Valley, Ringwood Bypass, Schwerkolt Cottage, and Eastland (Mullum Mullum Creek Trail)
- Simpsons Park / Heatherdale Reserve Proclamation Park
- Koomba Park (briefly combined with Dandenong Creek Trail) and Wantirna Reserve
- Blind Creek / Llewellyn Park Complex and the Blind Creek Trail
- Nortons Park, Shepherds Bush, and Drummies Bridge Reserve
- Jells Park (including trail network) and Chesterfield Farm
- Corhanwarrbul Creek Wetlands, Dandenong Creek and Tirhatuatan Park (briefly rejoining the Dandenong Creek Trail between Wellington Road and EastLink-Dandenong Creek overpass)
- Fotheringham Reserve, Mile Creek, and Greaves Reserve
The trail ends after crossing the Dandenong Creek via a low-water bridge just upstream of the Dandenong Bypass overbridge, where it permanently joins the Dandenong Creek Trail. The Dandenong Creek Trail then follows the creek along the EastLink tollway as far as Bangholme, where it then heads west to the National Watersports Complex, Patterson Lakes, Carrum Foreshore, the Bayside Trail and beyond.[1]
Footbridges cross EastLink at a number of points along the trail, and another takes path users across the Princes Highway.[4]
Two additional footbridges completed construction in 2009: a footbridge over Maroondah Highway and a 60 m footbridge over Burwood Highway at the intersection with Mountain Highway.
