Cycling in Werribee

Werribee River Bike Trail winds alongside the Werribee River from Presidents Park, Wyndham Vale to the Princes Highway, Werribee. This is a shared path so keep your eye out for pedestrians and the Saturday morning Park Run at Presidents Park. You can start your journey at many entry points including Werribee Train Station, and car parking is available at Presidents Park.   

This trail is in four main parts, which are  Presidents Park, Wyndham Vale;   Heaths Rd, Wyndham Vale to Cottrell St, Werribee (along both sides of the Werribee River – great if you are doing a return journey);

Werribee CBD to Chirnside Park, Werribee ( this section takes you past the new Wyndham Park and is a great place to pop into Watton Street to refuel); and Chirnside Park to Princes Highway. The latter is the section of the river where the most platypus sightings have occurred – you won’t see them zooming by, but you can find several quiet places to rest and watch along the river bank. The Werribee River is one of the highlights of the region, with notable sites from both Indigenous and early pastoralist history.

At the Princess Hwy end of the trail you can continue your journey into the Werribee River Regional Park and Werribee Park Precinct (Werribee Park Mansion and Werribee Open Range Zoo), or follow the trail to the end of the Federation Trail in Melbourne.

Werribee South is a popular destination for locals and visitors, with beaches and fishing spots attracting thousands of visitors every year. Wyndham Bay Trail is a paved scenic route along the Werribee South foreshore, Port Phillip Bay. 

 At the Werribee South Beach car park, you will find the mouth of the Werribee River with a small jetty for fishing and one of the busiest boat ramps in the bay. The park has a fantastic children’s playground with barbecues to fire up. Among the abundant bird life, are pelicans who show a lot of interest in local fishers’ daily catch. You can get a tasty takeaway lunch across the road at local favourite, Anglers Anchorage.

This easy 3.3km bike trail winds down via Cambridge Primary School through Cambridge Reserve to Derrimut Road, Hoppers Crossing and back. You will pass the Heathdale Glen Orden Wetlands (popular for bird watching) along the way. It is worth taking a short detour to circle the wetlands.

This is an easy, flat ride, popular with families not only because it is all off-road but because there are plenty of places to play and explore along the way. 

To continue further along the trail, cross Derrimut Road and follow the drainage reserve to the Princes Highway, where you can link up to the Federation Trail.

Little River is about ten minutes west of Werribee. A true country town, it was the inspiration for the name of 1970s soft-rock legends the Little River Band, who passed a road sign on the way to a gig in Geelong in 1975. 

The Little River runs through a spectacular landscape with significant native grasslands, river red gums, scenic rocky escarpments and the granite peaks of the You Yangs as the backdrop. Gain entry to the bike trail from Little River Recreational Reserve and the Possy Newland Reserve.

Step off the trail for an authentic country pub meal at the Little River Hotel and you may feel like you’ve stumbled onto a movie set. The region’s sweeping grassland plains, waterways and historic buildings have provided the backdrop for films including The Dressmaker, Gallipoli and Mad Max, which featured the heritage-listed Little River Bed and Breakfast. Originally built in the 1840s, the fully restored pub still provides a rest stop for travellers and has plenty of country charm.

Lollypop Creek flows through Wyndham Vale, and the 2km bike trail starts north of Greens Road at Lollypop Drive. This path follows the creek southwards through the drainage reserve until it reaches Wyndham Vale Reserve. You can also access it via Wyndham Vale Reserve, Honour Ave, and Olive Way.

Skeleton Creek begins at Mount Cottrell and runs through the Cheetham Wetlands to Port Phillip Bay. The creek has sites of significance to Indigenous people, as well as remnants of an old bluestone dairy. The Skeleton Creek Bike Trail consists of roughly 5km in two sections. The first runs from Sayers Road, Hoppers Crossing southwards to Old Geelong Road. The second section is south of the Princes Freeway in the Boardwalk Estate, Point Cook, running along both sides of Skeleton Creek. There are two secondary trails which run off this path. These trails run along the Sayers and Hoppers Crossing Drainage Reserves, Hoppers Crossing, with entry points off Sayers and Hogans Roads. At the southernmost point the Skeleton Creek trail meets the Bay Trail at Cheetham Wetlands. Cross the bridge here to follow the Bay Trail to Altona and Williamstown.