WALK IN THE PARK:
MELVILLE KOPPIES
16 NOVEMBER 2025
We aim to provide a gay, lesbian and straight-friendly hiking environment for anyone and everyone to enjoy the beautiful outdoors in the company of like-minded friends.
When
16 November 2025
Where
Melville Koppies, Emmerentia
Fee
R 100 + R20 pp
coffee
Cuppa Cafe Melville
Intensity
5 km Scenic walk
Melville Koppies is a nature reserve and a Johannesburg City Heritage Site. Melville Koppies Plaque is the last conserved remnant of Johannesburg’s ridges as they were before the discovery of gold in 1886. Its geology goes back three million years. Stone tools found show that Early Stone Man camped here as long as 500 000 years ago. There is a Late Stone Age living floor. Within the last 1 000 years Iron Age immigrants arrived, and remains of their kraal walls can be found on the northern slopes. In 1963 an iron-smelting furnace was excavated and can be seen today.
The vegetation of the Koppies is entirely indigenous and is a remarkable example of the richness of the highveld grasses, flowers and trees so close to a city centre. These ridges have looked like this for hundreds of years.
We will be doing a scenic 5km walk, with coffee afterwards at Cuppa Cafe Melville nearby.
Physical Address:
Melville Koppies Central Gate, 4 Judith Road, Emmerentia (safe parking at Marks Park sports club just opposite the road).
https://maps.app.goo.gl/nxX8TCqR9yMn913W7
Please join the WhatsApp group for this hike to get updates and communications.
MEET:
Arrive at 07:30. We start hiking at 08:00.
REQUIREMENTS:
Good hiking shoes, hat, sun block, at least 2lt of water, snacks.
COFFEE
We will meet for coffee after the walk at Cuppa Cafe Mellville, 9 Main Road Melville – 5 min drive from the Koppies.
DIFFICULTY RATING
Basic to moderate fitness is required.
ENTRANCE FEE:
R100 per person to the venue plus R20 club fee.
NO NO’S:
No radios. No claims against the club for loss/death or injury. Your participation is voluntary. Take care. No littering, we take only photographs and leave only fairy footprints! Pets not allowed in the Central Reserve.
For more information, contact Reinette on 082 469 0095
For more information, contact Reinette on 082 469 0095.
For any updates, join the WhatsApp group for this hike
Remember
Good hiking shoes, hat, sun block, 2lt of water, snacks.