Mount Sugarloaf is a short drive from Kinglake.
It's nice, if underwhelming.
The drive to Mount Sugarloaf takes you through the the outer reaches of Kinglake West which is small township of houses on National Park Road.
Then you go into Kinglake National Park.
It's a short drive along a sealed road up to the lookout. There is a sign that says no busses (or rather it's a sign with a picture of a bus and circle with a line through it).
It's quite a nice picturesque drive up to the lookout. Speed limit is 60 kilometres, until you're near the end, where it drops to 40 km/h and there's quite a tight bend in the road.
Melbourne just about visible (with a x30 zoom)
At the lookout you can just about see Melbourne, and you can sort of see the surrounding areas, although the trees are blocking a lot of the view.
There was a relatively inviting Mount Sugarloaf walking track leading away from the car park.
The path goes all the way back to the entrance to the national park area, so I wasn't inclined to take it.
On the drive out I saw a wallaby, had to stop and give way to it, it seemed to not care that I was there.
The road itself has a few holes in it to be aware of, especially one which is a little hard to see on the way out just before the entrance to the national park.
Start of Mount Sugarloaf walking track
On the way there I more or less navigated for myself, I had Google Maps open and it on my phone via CarPlay, but knew where to go. Up EastLink, turn off at Ringwood, along Maroondah Highway and then through Yarra Glen and up the Melba Highway before turning off onto Healesville-Kinglake Road (C724). I knew I needed to basically head north-ish and then turn for Kinglake.
But on the way home I wondered what about the other route that Google Maps offered up. Namely Heidelberg-Kinglake Road (C746).
The 'road narrows' signs should have been a warning.
It was interesting, and I've not often needed to turn the steering wheel in my ute that much going down a hill.
The people cutting the corners as they were going up the road could have been done without if I'm totally honest.
It was an interesting drive.
The landscape on this road was also much drier compared to the road taken up to Kinglake.
It turns from country blocks to large blocks to the outer suburbs very quickly, and then suddenly you find yourself staring at Eastland Shopping Centre waiting to turn onto the Ringwood Bypass.
