Trails Feature, GB Magazine
A new O’Keefe Rail Trail facility, as well as urban city cycling and walking, are two features in the current Autumn 2024 edition of the City of Greater Bendigo's GB magazine. Council's funded trail project, [...]
Rail Trail Popular Running Facility
The Bendigo Harriers Club members were pounding the surface of the O'Keefe Rail Trail for Mother's Day 2024. The start location for the various running events was near the trail's new car parking and associated [...]
Rail Trail, a Good Neighbour
The small township of Knowsley and adjoining neighbours of the O'Keefe Rail Trail will benefit from recent community volunteers' efforts, as well as improving the trail's linking of high biodiversity areas. Preparing for planting. Photo: [...]
Cycling Without Age for Bendigo?
The Bendigo Cycling Without Age team is advancing their proposed service while boosting the experiences of individuals. A Kerang based trishaw was brought to Bendigo's Lake Weeroona, enabling the team to take passengers who are [...]
Trail Repair Works
With high rainfall events occurring in 2023, one consequence of the Campaspe River's high flows and flooding was damage to the O'Keefe Rail Trail at Axedale. While temporary works enabled the trail to reopen to [...]
April’s “Last Wednesday” ride
With the winter season approaching, members of the Friends of the Bendigo-Kilmore Rail Trail enjoyed mild conditions to ride through the Wellsford Forest. The route track, through the Wellsford Forest With the Forest Gallery being [...]
Meeting Local State Member
The thought of having an off-road recreational trail, linking Wallan with Kilmore, has local community groups joining forces to promote the proposal. Representatives of the Wallan Environment Group (WEG), Mitchell Bicycle User Group(MBUG), and the [...]
Friends help Biodiversity
With the O'Keefe Rail Trail being a longitudinal connector for identified areas of significant biodiversity, care for this important link is being assisted by the Friends of the Bendigo-Kilmore Rail Trail members. 'The Crew' is [...]
Supporting the O’Keefe Challenge
The community supported O’Keefe Challenge 2024 successfully held its annual running events on Sunday, 21st April, with a total field of 932 participants. Runners in 10km event. Photo: Garry Long In near perfect weather conditions, [...]
Light The Trail Success
Riders were keen to get right into the lighting mood and also in colourful costumes for the annual Light the Trail night ride on the O'Keefe Rail Trail. Rider enthusiasm Photo: Tim Laugher Riding from [...]