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With the publication in October, 2025, of the Lerderderg Track Walk or Ride Guide, we now have complete map and track note coverage of the whole of the 300km-long Great Dividing Trail Network captured within a sturdy wiro-bound guidebook format. The new 144 page guidebook acts as a companion to the GDTA’s highly successful, award-winning Goldfields Track Walk or Ride Guide. It follows a similar style and format, sandwiching the large scale 1:17,500 ratio maps & accompanying track notes between essays by locals and experts on the Lerderderg’s wildly diverse natural beauty and vivid slices of its cultural heritage, people and places. Alison Pouliot, for instance, has gifted us a jewel of an essay on the third F – fungi. And ornithologist and environmental educator, Tanya Loos, wrote for us about the Lerderderg’s other two Fs – flora and fauna.
New features in this guide include seven short, half day circuit walks and Welcomes to Country from the two Kulin Nation language groups whose traditional lands encompass the Lerderderg Track – the Dja Dja Wurrung in the north and the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung in the south. These Traditional Owners are expected to co-manage with Parks Victoria the new 44,860 hectare Wombat-Lerderderg National Park, when declared in 2026.
Both of the track’s shire councils, Moorabool and Hepburn, provided funding support for the guidebook, as have two of the local Bendigo banks, Bacchus Marsh and Daylesford.
“Many Great Dividing Trail Association members have contributed to producing this guidebook – all on a voluntary basis. They’re an extraordinarily talented lot, who brought a diverse array of skills to bear and I believe this second guide for the GDTN is even better than our first.” Gib Wettenhall, Editor and project manager.
