The best traffic-free bike rides in Leslie Harrison Dam Nature Refuge

Tones Road Park is a busy, spacious suburban park that combines plenty of green space with several recreational facilities and direct access to the Bulimba Creek Bikeway. There are walking and cycling paths, a playground, sports fields, picnic tables, and an off-leash dog area, making it a popular family-friendly spot. Its connection to Bulimba Creek and the surrounding trails makes it a fantastic starting point for longer walks or bike rides through Brisbane’s eastern green corridor.

Bulimba Creek is a major tributary of the Brisbane River that flows through Brisbane’s southern and eastern suburbs, forming a continuous green corridor of bushland and wetlands. Its shaded banks provide important habitat for native wildlife and create a beautiful setting for multiple parks, with an extensive network of walking and cycling trails running along its course, including the Bulimba Creek Bikeway.

Bulimba Creek Bikeway is Brisbane’s longest off-road shared pathway, stretching about 20 kilometres from Murarrie to Eight Mile Plains. It's a mostly flat, sealed route that follows Bulimba Creek through parks, bushland, wetlands, and open green spaces, lined with mature trees for shade. This picturesque route is popular with walkers, runners, cyclists, and families, and also connects a variety of local recreation areas along the creek corridor.

The Moreton Bay Cycleway is an ideal way to visit the area, safe, and scenic.

Bulimba Creek forms one of Brisbane’s major urban wildlife corridors, flowing through wetlands, bushland remnants, and freshwater swamplands before eventually reaching the Brisbane River. Around Minnippi Parklands, the creek helps support a surprisingly diverse ecosystem within the suburbs, with waterbirds, wetland vegetation, microbats, and even squirrel gliders recorded in the area. Restoration work along the creek corridor has helped improve habitat around the lagoons and riparian zones, giving this stretch a much more natural feel than you’d expect so close to the city.

Orana Esplanade Park is part of a continuous coastal corridor connecting Point Halloran with other foreshore reserves, sitting directly between mangrove-lined habitats along Moreton Bay. The park runs right along the sealed walking and cycling path on the boundary of the Moreton Bay Marine Park, with several access points to small sandy sections of shoreline and launch spots for small boats at higher tide. This stretch is especially known for its intertidal mudflats and birdlife, especially around Point Halloran, making it an ideal place to immerse yourself in nature and take in the scenery.

Les Moore Park is a small foreshore reserve along the edge of Moreton Bay, with grassy open space and direct access to the shoreline. The park sits right along the coastal path and looks out over tidal flats and the calm bay waters, with mangroves and seabirds commonly seen along this quieter stretch of coast. There are picnic areas and several benches, making it a great place to stop along the waterfront, with a relaxed, local feel rather than a busy destination park.

Moreton Bay Cycleway is a long-distance coastal route that follows the shoreline of Moreton Bay, linking communities from the Redcliffe Peninsula through Brisbane’s bayside suburbs down to Redland Bay. Developed as a network of shared paths and on-road sections, it spans roughly 150 kilometres and connects beaches, wetlands, parks, and urban foreshore areas along the coast. Along this section, the path follows the foreshore past mangroves and tidal flats, with expansive views across the bay and is a lovely, quieter feel compared to the busier beachfront stretches.