Oxley Creek runs into the Graceville reach of the Brisbane River. This is a tidal mangrove creek that although running through a suburban area looks like unspoilt wilderness. It offers quiet paddling in a narrow corridor of green mangroves, and looks at its best when paddled at the top of the tide.

Access upstream is from the far end of Cliveden Avenue, Oxley, with a 100 metre walk over a grassed park to a pontoon. It is 7 kilometres down to the pontoon at Simpson's Playground, Graceville, next to the Brisbane River. The ramp is along the river a little from the playground, where Oxley Creek joins the Brisbane River.The creek gradually narrows upstream of the Cliveden Avenue pontoon, but there are some four kilometres of paddling to the Ipswich Motorway bridge possible at full tide. If returning, consider the effect of a rising or falling tide.

There is walk-in access at Nosworthy Park, Hall avenue, to the creek, on a winding 250 metres track, to a muddy bank.