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Poverty Point (Old Steel Bridge) Walk

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8km, 3 hrs | Walhalla | Follow the Thomson River trek as it kinks around sumptuous mountain valleys on the Poverty Point (Old Steel Bridge) Walk.

Accompany the ambling Thomson River through a range of vegetation.

This walk varies between dry forest with a shrubby understorey to small pockets of wet forest with tree ferns and small creeks.

Along the way search for remains of the old tramways and dry stone walling that once supported the gold mining timber tramway from Walhalla.

Pin Location: Walhalla
Distance: 8km return
Duration: 3 hours
Grade: Level 3
Start/finish: Thomson River Bridge
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