Walking Track to Manly Dam

What a find. Great place to walk and socialise. BBQ facilities look great and we hope to try them next time.

It was 4 hours of total time from city, walking to the waterfall and return to city on a nice beautiful Sunday. A bit muddy from time to time as it was a day after the rain but it was rewarded by strong cool waterfall sound. We started the walk at the nice and scray walk over the dam and prob it was not a shortcut to the waterfall. It took 2.5 hours including two break time of 15 minutes each. 172x from the city to near the entrance, then about 20 minutes of walk along the residence of Balgowlah. many cars came to the parking lot, picnic area with parking next to the parking machine. Went out to the Wakehurst parkway side to get to 141 bus. luckily the bis was operating on Sunday afternoon. a bit dangerous 200 m walk to the bus stop, so be careful..the circuit joins the biking trail in the middle then branch back to the bushwalk trail before the waterfall. Kids could find some dragonflies and tadpoles, even some baby ferns. a lovely place to bushwalk on a bright sunny weather. cool breeze all along in September.

Beautiful quite walk around manly dam waters... takes about 1.5 to 2 hrs for 8ish km. Little waterfalls, wildlife to see... BBQ spots and plenty of parking available, boat ramp and fishing too. Great little place to enjoy your weekend with friends and family

Scenic walk, signage is poor and confusing to complete the loop around the dam.

Had a lovely, slightly longer than expected, walk around the dam on a sunny Sunday. We had expected to follow the "hikers" signs and that these would be easy-to-see as we made our way around. Silly us!! Not even sure where we went wrong, and it wasn't terrible that we got "lost", but perhaps better signage is required. Such beautiful scenery, wildlife and flora to be seen.