Information about finding and using good routes for cycling in Maroondah.
For lists of bike paths and on-road bike lanes, refer to the Paths page.

Maps

Parks and Paths in Maroondah is a sheet map of Maroondah showing bike paths, recommended routes, common destinations and a table of parks on one side and useful cycling and related information on the other. It is produced by Maroondah City Council and available from council service centres for free. This is the second edition and was released at the end of 2006. The first edition was called Discover Maroondah by Bike and was released on 16 Feb 2003.

Victoria’s Bike Paths Guide is a spiral bound book currently available at many newsagents and bookshops for $24.95.

Bike rides around Melbourne is available from Bicycle Victoria, book shops, outdoor shops and some bike shops. At $32.95 it is more expensive but you may find it correspondingly clearer and more helpful.

Melway street directory is a good resource for bike path locations. It's a bit heavy to take on a ride but if you have a spare old one it is possible to unbind it so you can just take the pages you need for each ride. From the 2003 edition onwards map 592 shows on-road and off-road bike paths in the Melbourne Metro area.

The VicRoads web site has online cycling maps of Victoria including Maroondah.

The Greater Eastern Region Yellow Pages directory that is delivered free to every household each year has a UBD map of the Box Hill - Mt Dandenong and Coldstream - Lysterfield area including bike paths. This map can easily be removed and is a great lightweight street map for cycling. When your new local Yellow Pages directory arrives I recommend you remove the map from the old directory.

Roads

Some roads eg Dublin Rd have a marked car parking lane which is great for cyclists to ride in when there are no parked cars - it encourages car drivers to use the centre of the road.

Connections

Some of the best routes for cycling use connections that are only accessible to pedestrians and cyclists. They may make an otherwise dead-end street a through one or link two parallel streets or simply be an alternative connection to a bike path by virtue of an easement. Finding these connections is usually a matter of exploring on your bike but some can be seen in the Melways marked with a pedestrian symbol or as a small green park. Others can be found as easements in Google Maps.