Posted by So I actually headed out to visit Compton falls when I came out this way in July to visit Robbie’s Falls, but I hadn’t paid enough attention of how to find the start of the track and after spending 30 minutes trying to find various routes through the logged forest coupe, I had given up and gone home.
So here I was again.
Truth be told, I’d had a shit morning and just needed to go for a drive and as I had thought about heading here earlier in the week, this is where I ended up.
To get here, head out to Judbury and from the junction of Glen Huon Road and Lonnavale Road, you drive out along Lonnavale Road for about 6.5 km where you need to turn right to stay on Lonnavale Road (just over the Russell River) and continue on for another 8kms (14.4kms) where the main road curves around to the right, but you need to take the lesser used road on the left. It’s a bit rough at first, but it’s only another 3.5kms from here to where you park which is an open area in a recently harvested coupe with roads going off in four or five different directions (depending on how you count them). If you find yourself going down a hill and coming to a head end, don’t worry, the road ends in a few hundred meters, and just turn around and head back to here.
The actual track heads off around the forest coupe to your right as you pulled into the area (ie. North). You follow it down and around the forest coupe for about 100 metres before it heads west and around the older logged coupe. It’s a really obvious, but wet and slippery, track and you basically just follow your nose from here around the coupe until you descend down a step section to find some pink tape (on your right) marking the start of a small walking track to the falls (about 800 metres from the car).
Form here there is a pretty well formed track with lots of pink tapes guiding you down the hill and across Compton Creek on a very large log (about 1.1 km from start) and then you basically make your way up the other side of the creek for about another 300 metres (1.4km from the start) to the falls.
It really is a beautiful little falls, and for those who are comfortable moving safely over slippery rocks, it is well worth making your way out closer to the falls if you can.
Once you’ve had a play, you just follow the track back to your car.
All up, going slowly and enjoying my time at the falls, this walk took me around an hour and a quarter.
And yes, it really helped me blow away the cobwebs of a shitty morning.