The Comber Greenway is a 7-mile (11 km) traffic-free section of the National Cycle Network, in development along the old Belfast-Comber railway line. The cycle path starts on Dee Street in Belfast and finishes at Comber.[1] Now completed the Greenway provides an eco-friendly cycle path with views of Stormont and Scrabo Tower. The most recent addition to the route was in November 2008 when the final link between Old Dundonald Road/Comber Rd junction and Comber was opened. This added 2.5 km (1.6 mi) to the route.[2] One section runs through a SLNCI-designated Wetland ecosystem.
The traffic free route begins at Dee Street in East Belfast and passes by the C. S. Lewis statue at the Holywood Arches, along the Bloomfield Walkway to Sandown Road where it continues past the PSNI headquarters to a newly installed toucan crossing at the Knock Road.
From here it travels up to the Kings Road, where the Kings Road Scooter Club hail from, and onwards to Abbey Road, through Tullycarnet and Ardcarn to East Link Road in Dundonald.
It continues through a wetland area emerging at the Comber Road, Dundonald where a toucan crossing has been installed.
The route continues from Comber Road, Dundonald past the Billy Neill Centre for Soccer Excellence where the former railway line runs near to the Enler River. Walkers and cyclists can cross the River Enler and farm lanes using a series of reinstated bridges before reaching the final destination at the Belfast Road, Comber.
On the way out of Belfast, the Greenway goes through many of the old Belfast and County Down Railway stations i.e. Bloomfield, Neill's Hill, Knock, Dundonald before finishing just short of Comber station.
Where can I walk and cycle on the Comber Greenway?
The full seven miles of the Greenway are now open to the public.
The MournesRambler I Series
There are 19 caches in the MournesRambler I series which is designed to lure you away from the bright city lights along the Comber Greenway:
The recommended mode of transport for this series is a bicycle, but it should also be quite feasible to complete it on foot. Have you found them all? If you have done them all one after the other please let us know (in your log entry) how long it took you so that others will know roughly how long it might take them.
The cache is a magnetic nano. It only contains a log, so please bring your own pen/pencil.
It is hidden at the edge of the Comber Greenway close to the Belfast Road.
This path is frequented by muggles, especially dog walkers, so please be surreptitious and don't give away the location of the cache.