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PINHEY FOREST RESERVE: NEPEAN SPORTSPLEX

Spring: **  Summer: **  Fall: **  Winter: **

        Independent Directions to this Site: From Highway 416 take exit 72 (West Hunt Club Road). If northbound, the 0.2 km offramp brings you to Cedarview Road, where you will turn right or SSE onto it and go 0.2 km SSE to West Hunt Club Road, where you will turn left or northeast. If southbound, a 0.4 km offramp dumps onto West Hunt Club Road, where you will turn left or northeast and in 0.4 km join the northbound offramp traffic. Both groups will now follow West Hunt Club Road northeast for an additional 4.5 km to reach Woodroffe Avenue. Turn right or SSE onto Woodroffe and follow it 0.2 km to the Nepean Sportsplex on your left. Turn left or northeast into the Sportsplex and go around behind to the northeastern corner of the parking lot to the beginning of the trail at the Pinhey Forest Reserve: Nepean Sportsplex area (P14).
        Stony Swamp Loop Route Directions: From from the parking area for Pinhey Forest Reserve: Slack Road trails, turn left or southwest onto Slack and proceed 1.5 km to Woodroffe Avenue. Turn right or NNW onto Woodroffe and go 1.0 km to the Nepean Sportsplex on your right. Turn right or northeast into the Sportsplex and go around behind to the northeastern corner of the parking lot to the beginning of the trail at the Pinhey Forest Reserve: Nepean Sportsplex area (P14).
Google Satellite Map of Pinhey Forest Reserve
Google Satellite Map of Pinhey Forest Reserve

        Site Description and Birding Information: The Pinhey Forest Reserve section behind the Nepean Sportsplex has a 3.5 km loop trail that goes through a variety of forest habitat, with a creek providing some wet areas. The initial section, Trail 30 is used as a fitness trail, but the far portions, Trail 31, are quieter. Locals birders often call this area Merivale Gardens for the sub-division of that name next to it.
         Black-backed Woodpecker is among the rarities that have been seen here.
         This area is adjacent to the Pinhey Forest Reserve: Slack Road area and the trails there can be accessed from the present site by locating the church at the far eastern end of the trail and crossing to Slack Road and thence to the parking area for those trails.
Pinhey Forest Reserve Trailhead at Nepean Sportsplex
Pinhey Forest Reserve Trailhead at Nepean Sportsplex
        Stony Swamp Loop Route Directions: From the Nepean Sportsplex parking area, turn right or NNW onto Woodroffe and go 0.3 km to West Hunt Club Road. Turn left or southwest onto it and drive 2.4 km to Greenbank Road. Turn left or SSE onto Greenbank to explore the next site on this loop, the Greenbank Road at West Hunt Club area.
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Last update:  October 25, 2009