Singapore Southern Ridges

Faber Point is the lookout at the top of the climb. NParks calls it the highest point in Mount Faber Park, with a view over the southern coastline and the Southern Islands, a small Merlion, and a tree planted on the first Tree Planting Day. OpenStreetMap records the summit at 106 metres. The park is one of Singapore’s older public parks, about 56 hectares, and it stays open through the night. The photograph, taken on 4 December 2024, looks southwest from near the summit: treetops in the foreground, Keppel Harbour and waterfront towers beyond. Its camera position is about 11 metres from the mapped point. You are above the port now, not still in the stairwell.

Reaching the point from Marang Trail means more than the staircase. Park paths and Mount Faber Road continue the climb. The gold line on the map is an OpenStreetMap pedestrian route reviewed on 24 September 2026 for that approach. It is a planning line, not a promise that every metre is the route you will prefer, and it is not live navigation.

The onward link is a different matter. Since 14 January 2025 a footpath section of Mount Faber Loop has been closed after a slope failure. NParks tells pedestrians to use an alternative without stairs, or another with stairs, between Henderson Waves and Mount Faber Peak at the cable-car station. The notice does not give an end date for that footpath. Car Park D is closed for the related slope work; the park page says to use Car Park C and gives December 2026 as the expected completion for the car park. Because the closed footpath sits on the connection between this point and the bridge, the map does not draw that leg. Follow the signs for the orange stair-free alternative or the black alternative with stairs. Do not treat an old photograph, or a line that is not on this map, as proof that the red-marked footpath has reopened.

Henderson Waves is the reason the two hills are one walk. NParks describes a 274-metre pedestrian bridge with a wave-like timber deck, the tallest pedestrian bridge in Singapore, built so people could move between the nature areas of the Southern Ridges. Seven undulating ribs form alcoves and give some shelter. At the Mount Faber Plaza end, a nutmeg tree marks the hill’s earlier life as a nutmeg plantation. The board asks visitors to come in the morning, when it is cooler, or after dark for the LED lighting, which runs from 7pm to 2am. An older brochure said the lights ran until 7am. The current feature page is the one to follow, and it can change.

The photograph shows the bridge from the side: the rising timber wave, the concrete piers, and the forest underneath. It was taken on 18 January 2020. The camera position is about 115 metres from the deck point used on this map, so the picture is of the structure, not a view from standing on it. The chapter point itself is on the mapped bridge deck.

You do not reach that deck by assuming the old footpath is open. The Mount Faber Loop closure, in force since 14 January 2025, is specifically the link between Henderson Waves and Mount Faber Peak. NParks publishes two alternatives, one with stairs and one without. This page does not draw either of them, because the notice map is a picture rather than a surveyed line this site can check against the road network. On the ground, use the signed route. The bridge deck is a different surface from Marang Trail. The older brochure calls the bridge wheelchair-friendly. The current pages for both parks still say there is no wheelchair access to the parks themselves, and Marang Trail is a staircase. A step-free alternative on one link is not a step-free day.

The west end of the bridge is already Telok Blangah Hill Park. The next chapter stays on that hill. It does not continue the scenic 10-kilometre ridge.

Terrace Garden is where this edition ends. NParks describes a series of semi-circular terraces on the hilltop, with a wide view over Singapore, and notes that wedding parties use it. Telok Blangah Hill Park covers about 34 hectares off Henderson Road, at Telok Blangah Green. It is open 24 hours, except the Earth Trail, which should not be entered after 7pm. There is no wheelchair access to the park. OpenStreetMap records a nearby hill point at 94 metres, below the 106 metres mapped at Faber Point. The drop is real, but it is not a surveyed height difference for your walk.

The photograph was taken at night on 2 January 2010. Stone balustrades turn with the terraces, and the city lights sit beyond the trees. The file has no camera coordinates. The match is the subject: those curved terraces are what the park page describes. The picture is also heavily processed, with bright starbursts around the lamps. It is a photograph of the place, not a neutral daylight record, and it has not been enlarged for this site. The original is 1,547 pixels wide.

Getting here from the bridge is a short hill walk, not a continuation of the whole ridge. The map shows one OpenStreetMap pedestrian route from the bridge deck to the garden, reviewed on 24 September 2026. The routing uses Telok Blangah Green, the road along the north side of the hill. That matters because a footpath below the Therapeutic Garden has been closed for slope works since 13 June 2025, with 31 March 2028 as the expected completion. The notice draws an alternative in orange. Do not leave the signed paths to cut across the repair area. This line is an editorial reference, not a guarantee that it is the orange path in every metre.

Two further limits belong in the same sentence. Parts of Forest Walk, the elevated trail that continues west toward Alexandra Arch, are unlit between 7pm and 7am during maintenance expected to finish on 30 September 2026. And the Alexandra–Queensway park connector, farther along the Southern Ridges Loop, remains closed until the third quarter of 2027. This walk does not enter either of those sections. Leave from Telok Blangah Green and recheck buses. The 10-kilometre ridge is a different day, and only after the notices say so.