Friends of the Bendigo-Kilmore rail trail

There’s nothing warms the heart of a rail trail fan like a new rail trail to explore. So while we dream of our own long-distance trail, we decamped to Yea last weekend to check out the newly-completed Goulburn River High Country Rail Trail between Tallarook and Alexandra. (If we’d had a third day we would [...]

Around 20 students from the Axedale Primary School cycled to school on the O’Keefe Rail Trail on National Ride2School Day, Friday 23 March in the company of parents and the Friends of the Bendigo-Kilmore Rail Trail – and the kids said they loved it. Around ten senior students, parents and three members of the Friends [...]

A successful tree planting project was completed on the O’Keefe Rail Trail at Longlea on 30 October 2011. This was a joint project with the Friends of Kennington Reservoir group and was arranged with the assistance of City of Greater Bendigo council. The planting site was selected on the trail’s bypass section around the former [...]

Join the Friends of Bendigo-Kilmore Rail Trail on Saturday 7th May 2011, as we ride the Ballarat-Skipton Rail Trail. The rail trail is 53 km long and has a fine gravel surface, suitable for MTB and hybrid bikes. It traverses rolling hills, scrub-land forests and grassy plains. It crosses the historic Nimmons trestle bridge at [...]

Ever wanted to ride the rail trail and Wellsford Forest, but lacked company? Well, join us for a guided tour on Saturday 2 October. We’ll follow the existing trail to Axedale and return through the Wellsford forest as part of this year’s Spring in the Bendigo bush. Enthusiasts will talk about the railway’s history and [...]

Late in August, a group of the Friends joined forces with the Longley Landcare Group and the council to plant around 2,000 trees and shrubs along a bare patch of the rail trail near Junortoun. Even before the deluge of last weekend, it was soft and muddy and no one came out of the exercise [...]

The O’Keefe Rail Trail has been identified as one of seven trail proposals of regional significance. The Loddon Mallee Regionally Significant Trails Strategy investigated trails that have the potential to attract domestic and international visitors to the area showcase the unique landscape and cultural features invigorate local communities enhance the region’s reputation as a key [...]