Millionaires Walk Sorrento: What to See, How Long It Takes and Where to Start
Note: This is the Millionaires Walk in Sorrento, Victoria, Australia — not Sorrento, Italy.
Millionaires Walk is a short clifftop path in Portsea, on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula. It runs 1.5 kilometres return along the back fences of some of Melbourne’s most expensive holiday homes, with Port Phillip Bay stretched out below. Allow 45 to 60 minutes if you plan to stop, which you will.
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About the Walk
Millionaires Walk is a grade 1 track — largely flat and manageable at any fitness level. The path runs through a public right of way easement along the clifftop, passing through a series of gates between the mansions and their private jetties below. You can detour down to small beaches and coves along the route, which is where most of the time goes.
The walk also forms part of the Sorrento-Portsea Artists Trail, with four painting reproductions to find along the route.
How to get to the Millionaire’s Walk
Millionaires Walk runs between Point King Road and Lentell Avenue in Portsea, a small village immediately south of Sorrento on the Mornington Peninsula. Both streets run off Point Nepean Road, which is the main road through the village.
Parking is limited at both ends. On weekdays I found Point King Road easier for parking than Lentell Avenue, so that’s where I started. On weekends, get there early or expect to circle.
If you’d rather not worry about parking, you can add a kilometre each way by starting from Sorrento Park at Sorrento Beach Rotunda or the Sorrento Information Centre and walking down to the trail.
Historic Sites along the walk
If you begin at Point King Road, keep an eye out for the white trig station and the small stone monument immediately in front of it.
The monument is for Acting Lieutenant John Murray. Murray was the commander of the HMS Lady Nelson. In 1802, he took possession of Port King, declaring it to be a part of Great Britain and Ireland. Port King was later renamed Port Phillip.
It’s one of the most significant colonial markers on the Mornington Peninsula, and easy to walk straight past if you don’t know to look for it.
Location: 3498A Point Nepean Rd, Sorrento VIC
The Millionaire’s Walking Trail
From Point King Road the path leads to Point King Foreshore Reserve, where steps take you down to a small beach with a boardwalk and bathing boxes. Worth a few minutes if you haven’t seen bathing boxes before. From here the path follows the cliff edge north towards Sorrento, through the first of several gates.
On the seaward side, rows of boathouses and private jetties drop down the cliff face — including one with its own sea pool. The mansions line the landward side, each with a gate marked ‘private’ leading to stairs down to the water.
The path does feel like it threads through someone’s back garden, because it essentially does. That’s what makes it interesting.
There are a few of the original older homes along the route but most are new builds, and most owners have kept fences low enough that the bay views remain intact.
Several small beaches and coves can be reached by stairs along the route. You’ll see locals heading down with towels — these are proper swimming spots, not just lookout points.
Dogs must be kept on leads throughout, which the signage will remind you of frequently.
As you near Lentell Avenue the houses get larger and the views open up towards Sorrento Pier and the Melbourne CBD on a clear day.
The Sorrento Portsea Artists’ Trail
Millionaires Walk forms part of the larger Sorrento-Portsea Artists’ Trail, and there are four painting reproductions to find along the route.
At the Lentell Avenue end you’ll find a copy of Roy Hodgkinson’s 1947 painting View from Munstead Wood. If you’ve started from this end and reached the plaque, turn around and look right — that’s where the black gate entrance to the walk is, easy to miss.
At the Point King end is Arthur Streeton’s Point King from 1920. Arthur Boyd and John Perceval also feature along the route. The full Artists’ Trail extends well beyond this walk and the official brochure is worth downloading if you plan to follow it further.
I love getting a bird’s-eye view into how Melbourne’s elite spend time when they leave the city.
More from the Mornington Peninsula and Victoria
- Explore more of the Mornington Peninsula
- Visit Point Nepean National Park at the tip of the peninsula
- Check out our itinerary for visiting the Great Ocean Road
- Discover more great day trips from Melbourne
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