Shepherds Gully
The road which branches to the west at the top of Devines Hill and leads into the Macdonald Valley is the one most travellers used, preferring it to the 40 km section through Ten Mile Hollow which traversed remote hills, gullies and bushland. The first route down, known as Sternbecks Gully, is believed to have been built in the 1830s, with further upgrading and minor realignment in the 1840s. About 60 years later the road was realigned to follow the northern side of Shepherds Gully. Now closed to vehicular traffic, the Shepherds Gully roads make a pleasant walking track through the cool rainforest gully. The abutments of a small bridge can be seen where the Sternbecks Gully road branches.
Until the late 1940s when Settlers Road was completed, traffic continuing to St Albans and beyond crossed the Macdonald River on Books Ferry a few hundred metres north of Shepherds Gully.
