1. Circuit Flat Bridge and Sampsons Pass
The road near Ten Mile Hollow (1-2 hours)
A few hundred metres north of the Mogo Creek camping area a track branches to the east of the St Albans/Mogo Creek Road. This becomes the original Great North Road. A leisurely level walk through relatively open sandy terrain, graced by grevillias, banksias and scribbly gums leads to another of the early Great North Road bridges. Circa 1831-2. Projecting buttresses flank each corner, and the seven stone supports projecting from each abutment would have braced the timber deck which has now gone. The stone was quarried from a hill about 1 km to the north west.
To see the picked walling and road surface at Sampsons Pass continue past Circuit Flat bridge for another 3 km.
A few hundred metres north of the Mogo Creek camping area a track branches to the east of the St Albans/Mogo Creek Road. This becomes the original Great North Road. A leisurely level walk through relatively open sandy terrain, graced by grevillias, banksias and scribbly gums leads to another of the early Great North Road bridges. Circa 1831-2. Projecting buttresses flank each corner, and the seven stone supports projecting from each abutment would have braced the timber deck which has now gone. The stone was quarried from a hill about 1 km to the north west.
To see the picked walling and road surface at Sampsons Pass continue past Circuit Flat bridge for another 3 km.
