Newlands - Jungle Gym

The area is access sensitive!

HOW TO GET THERE

DRIVE
Main Entrance Parking
From Cape Town, get onto the N2 and then M3. Continue on the M3 for about 3.6km until you see the 'Newlands Fire Base' sign on the right situated on the middle barrier of the freeway. Follow this into the parking area beneath the trees.

Note: Click on a boulder named "Jungle Gym - Paths Map & Topo". This will bring up a picture of the paths and landmarks that are mentioned in the approach description below. Please note that the paths map is not perfect and there will be minor mistakes here and there, which will be corrected over time.
We have also drawn a yellow TRAIL on the MAP however with all the tree cover it is difficult to be precise so only use it as a guide as to the direction you are going. When you reach the fence (see below) the TRAIL on the MAP is pretty well spot on.
There is also a drawn topo of Jungle Gym when clicking on the boulder "Jungle Gym - Paths Map & Topo", from which you can use to get your bearings as to where the boulders are located in addition to the MAP.

Note: The following description for the approach is designed so that the area can be located from the perspective of someone who hasn't visited the area before. Once you have your bearings you can obviously choose your own approach to the boulders.

APPROACH: 35 mins
From the parking, head up a tar road (1) and turn left. Continue on 1 until reaching a second bench on the left side of the path and turn onto 7. Follow this keeping left, past the ruins of an old building, until reaching 8 next to a fence. From here you can use the yellow TRAIL on the MAP to also guide you. Head right along 8 up some steps ahead and then right up 8a on more wooden steps to reach a gravel road (9). Continue right up the winding road and pickup 10 on the right when reaching a sign on the left side of the path that has several indications on it, one of which is "Contour Path" pointing to the right - that is the one you want to take. Follow this path, keeping left, all the way up.
Just before reaching the contour path (6), keep an eye out on the right for the Jungle Gym boulder and two other smaller boulders closer to the path.
The rest of the boulders are situated to the left of these three boulders if facing Table Mountain. However it is easier to walk up to the contour (6) and then with less brush make your way back down tending diagonally right (with your back to Table Mountain) a ways (see the white TRAIL on the MAP).