DRIVING PLEASURE ALONG BLACK SPUR DRIVE
- Apr 17, 2023
- 1 min read
Updated: Oct 8, 2025
The Black Spur
The drive begins eighty km from Melbourne CBD and is part of the Maroondah Highway between the towns of Healesville and Narbethong in central Victoria.
The road can be driven as a short spirited twenty-minute drive or a leisurely thirty-minute drive. Most roadside speed signs are eighty km/h. There are extensive roadside towering tree ferns and mountain ash trees. The Black Spur is a twisty two-way road and demands respect. The road is often damp and is a popular road used by cars and motorcycles. The Black Spur drive is well known as one of the best driving roads in Victoria after the Great Ocean Road. I would agree.
The highlight of the Black Spur is about a six km road section of spectacular mountain ash and ferns. Much more of the drive is of open woodlands and is of about thirty km in total. The road continues onto Marysville. A popular small tourist town in the forested hills. The popular Steavensons Falls is a short drive out of town. The Victorian Black Saturday bushfires almost wiped Marysville off the map in February of 2009. Causing 173 deaths. The small town has since been rebuilt.
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MAP OF BLACK SPUR DRIVE
BLACK SPUR, YARRA RANGES
BLACK SPUR NEAR DOM DOM SADDLE
BLACK SPUR DRIVE
MOUNTAIN ASH & FERNS
ROAD MARKER 73 to 77 VIDEO LOOPS SEVERAL TIMES
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