 The trail provides good access to Chadstone Shopping Centre and Holmesglen Institute of TAFE for the local community.The trail passes through Valley Reserve in Mount Waverley, which is one of the last remaining stands of indigenous vegetation in the local area.Although Scotchmans Creek Trail is widely recognized as ending in the west at East Malvern Railway Station, some sources  have the trail's west end at Warrigal Rd.