Moderate walk
Upper Bob's Bay Track
The high route into Bob's Bay from Victoria Domain Loop Road.
Photo: Diego Tirira / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0
953 m and about 30 minutes one way from Victoria Domain Loop Road down to Bob's Bay. Moderate. Pairs with the Lower track for a loop.
The track at a glance
- Distance
- 953 m one way
- Time
- 30 min one way
- Grade
- Moderate (Marlborough District Council)
- Route
- One way; return the same way or via the Lower track
- Starts
- Victoria Domain Loop Road
- Dogs
- On a leash
- Cost
- Free
About Upper Bob's Bay Track
The upper of the two tracks into Bob's Bay drops from Victoria Domain Loop Road to the bay in just under a kilometre. The council also lists a third way in — Harbour View Car Park to Bob's Bay, 1,174 m and 25 minutes — so there are several ways to make a loop of it.
Know before you go
- Dogs on-leash in Bob's Bay Reserve.
Sources for this page
- Marlborough District Council — Picton by Foot or Bike brochure (PDF)
- Marlborough District Council — Bob's Bay Reserve
Location: OpenStreetMap contributors via Nominatim (Bob's Bay; feature).
Facts on this page were checked against the sources listed on 5 Sep 2026.
Nearby
Straight-line distances from Bob's Bay.
Lower Bob's Bay Track
Half an hour along the cliffs from Shelly Beach to a bush-fringed bay.
Bob's Bay
A bush-fringed bay you can only walk to — half an hour from Shelly Beach.
Kaipūpū Sanctuary
A fenced, predator-controlled peninsula ten minutes from the foreshore by water taxi, with a 2.7 km loop track.
Victoria Domain
200 hectares of bush between Picton and Waikawa, with over 20 km of walking and mountain-bike tracks.