Bendigo Circuit Walk/Ride
Start by heading anti-clockwise from the car park of the Bendigo Railway station [1]. Follow the blue street signs for the Goldfields Track SW down Gladstone St. From Boyd St, head south into the Salomon Gully flora reserve following gold-topped posts. The single track is tricky in places as you trend downhill to meet busy Bellevue Rd.
Up the bitumen and turn left into dirt Walter Rd [2].
Follow the gold-topped posts of the sandy shared use track through wildflowers to the picnic table at
Diamond Hill [3].
Here, you leave the Goldfields Track and
take to the signposts of the Bendigo Bushland trail. The first ones are fading
and hard to pick out. Head due east with the Spring Gully Reservoir’s high
fence to your right. On reaching the
‘burbs, leave trail and follow Kendall St [4] to the the Spring Gully
Recreation Reserve [5], now a hub for mountain bike riders.
The trail is well-signposted as it wends north along Spring Creek for over 3km. Cross creek [6] and left into Harcourt St around the edge of the Ewing Park oval. Take the streets as marked on the map for the final 1km stretch back to the station.
Bendigo off-road bike circuit
This circuit is mainly bush environment and
urban/ suburban corridors park corridors.
It is mainly off-road and shared trail
taking in some Goldfields Track, O’Keefe Rail Trail and two stream side shared
trails. A very few hill sections of the bush trails are best walked if you do
not have basic mountain bike riding skills. Refreshments are to be had at Lake
Weeroona to the NE and Spring Gully General Store in the S. Both are within
100m of the route.
Shortcuts are
available via marked main roads into the CBD, some of which have bike lanes.
