There really isn’t a good reason to visit this O’Hares Creek Lookout, unless you’re looking to stretch your legs or you’re after a short bike ride in Dhawaral National Park. Although it’s described by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service as offering “breathtaking scenery”, what you get are some nice views over O’Hares Creek after a short bushwalk that’s along a wide a firetrail.
O’Hares Creek, which eventually flows into the Georges River, seems to feature more rock than water when viewed from O’Hares Creek Lookout. However, it has many deep pools along its length, including the Jingga Pool and “ladies only” Minerva Pool, which is an Aboriginal cultural site (both reached via bushwalking tracks).
Getting to O’Hares Creek Lookout
It’s an easy, signposted walk to the lookout, which starts at the Dhawaral National Park carpark at the end of Victoria Road in Wedderburn. Follow the Victoria Road Trail, a wide and fairly level firetrail which soon passes a trail on the right to Minerva Pool, and after another 300m the Jingga Track which descends steeply to Jingga Pool.
Once you pass the Jingga Track junction you probbably won’t see anyone else along the firetrail, which only provides access to O’Hares Creek Lookout (you can continue for another couple of kilometres, before the firetrail enters a military range. After about 700m you’ll reach the signposted walking track to O’Hares Creek Lookout.
A (very) short walk along a bitumen track leads to the lookout platform.
Return the same way for a 2.9km walk – or you extend the bushwalk by visiting the very picturesque Jingga Pool and Minerva Pool.
More information
- NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service – O’Hares Creek lookout / O’Hares Creek lookout walking track
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