Hiking routes around Newcastle

No national or international trail comes within 19 km; the longest-distance routes here are regional. Great North Walk has more of its length here than any other route: 28 km within 19 km, of 269 km from Sydney to Newcastle. Regional routes account for the largest share: 28 of the 41 km of waymarked route within 19 km. Most of the 7 local routes are short walks: 7 of them are under 10 km.

• Great North WalkRegional28 km within 19 km · 269 km in all · Sydney to NewcastleCrown Land
• Bathers WayLocal5.3 km within 19 km
• Yuelarbah Walking TrackLocal2.1 km within 19 km
• Carol's Beach WalkLocal1.8 km within 19 km
• Tenil Beach WalkLocal1.4 km within 19 km
• Gilbey Loop WalkLocal1.2 km within 19 km
• Don Morris WalkLocal0.5 km within 19 km
• Birabahn Cultural TrailLocal0.2 km within 19 km

Each name opens the route on Waymarked Trails.

• Routes from Waymarked Trails, which draws the hiking routes mapped on OpenStreetMap (data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); counted on Oct 19, 2026.
• Only routes someone has mapped as a route on OpenStreetMap are counted. Signposted paths no one has mapped, and walks without waymarks, are not.
• Lengths within 19 km are measured on Waymarked Trails’ simplified lines and take in a route’s branches and variants; a path two routes share counts for each. A route’s length in all follows its main line along the mapped ways, and those marked “about” come from the simplified lines.

How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Hiking routes