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Stumers Creek Beach Loop

Walking1.2 kmIntermediateCircuit

A short loop incorporating the park, beach and creek mouth.

Suitability

Suitable for walkers, prams and wheelchairs – and your dog. It’s an easy grade.

Highlights

Just along past the Coolum Hotel this is a pleasant stroll along the beach and/or a lovely laneway through luscious greenery. A big lawn to linger about too. There are outdoor exercise equipment’s at one end, and the pretty stumers creek is but a few moments away at the other end. Several obvious beach tracks before Stumers Creek. Super close yet easy to switch off and enjoy the natural setting.

Walk alongside Norrie Job Park and as the road curves around follow the trail out to the beach and back to Stumers Creek, where dogs can be let off the leash. Remember to test the heat of the sand for your dog’s paws by placing the back of your palm on the sand for 5 seconds. If it’s too hot, come back later.

As you walk you’ll see pandanus and in the bushland coastal banksias and if you are lucky black cockatoos. There have also been rare sightings of white storks in the creek.

Afterwards

While you are doing this walk, why not walk all the way into Coolum – you’re halfway there! – and enjoy a fruit juice, coffee or burger – lots of dining and takeaway options.

How to get there

To the starting point: Start at the end of Stumers Creek Road, which is at the northern end of Coolum on David Low Way just north of the Coolum shops and caravan park.

To the end point: The end point is the same as the starting point.

About this place

  • Suitable for walking
  • Drinking water available
  • Barbeque on site
  • Picnic table on site
  • Toilets on site
  • Playground on site
Walking track grade
Grade 3
A formed track with some obstacles, up to 20km. Expect short steep sections and plenty of steps. Some walking experience helps.

Graded on the Queensland Parks walking track scale. Walk with care(opens in a new tab)

Managed by
Sunshine Coast Council

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