Community Games involves a Rail Trail
Need an excuse to ride a rail trail in the early hours of the morning, to be close to nature, watching kangaroos feed, and hearing birds calling to wake the morning? One of the events [...]
Volunteers help build a great rail trail
Community volunteer involvement continues for the current O’Keefe Rail Trail project, while contractor's work edges the trail’s extension forward between Heathcote and Axedale. The Friends of the Bendigo-Kilmore Rail Trail group advises the City of [...]
Restoring a part of history
The current O’Keefe Rail Trail extension project, from Axedale to Heathcote, is continuing in the Derrinal and Knowsley areas. The Friends of the Bendigo-Kilmore Rail Trail members are never too far away from the ‘coal [...]
Rail Trail Xmas Ride
It was a colourful eye catching Christmas ride and lunch for those on the annual Friends of the Bendigo-Kilmore Rail Trail. Wearing the group’s new jersey colours, twenty members of the Friends group enjoyed riding sections [...]
Bike Bendigo Inc. Launched
It is now official; Bike Bendigo Inc. was launched on Friday 17th October in the Hargreaves Mall Bendigo, by Member for Bendigo Lisa Chesters. Supporting efforts to encourage more people to ride bikes, Lisa offered [...]
Ride for Dad – Spring in the Bendigo Bush 2014
As part of the Bendigo Men’s Health Week activities, a Ride for Dad – Spring in the Bendigo Bush 2014 event will have you, family and friends riding the O’Keefe Rail Trail on Saturday 6th [...]
You are invited, to hear the guest speaker
You are invited to the Friends of the Bendigo-Kilmore Rail Trail AGM, this coming Tuesday 5th August, 6.45pm. The guest speaker will be Scott McGrory AOM, Olympic cycling gold medalist and current commentator for TV [...]
National Tree Day impacts on rail trail
Australia’s largest tree-planting event, National Tree Day-Sunday 27 July 2014, certainly has had an impact on the communities of Axedale and Heathcote as well as the O’Keefe Rail Trail. With the assistance of the Longlea [...]
National Tree Day – Heathcote
The O’Keefe Rail Trail and Heathcote will be the focus of the City of Greater Bendigo National Tree Day activities, with a community planting in Herriot Street between 10.00am and 1.30pm on Sunday July 27, [...]
A nice trail to train!
Like to train on a rail trail? Have you wondered what runners think about the O'Keefe Rail Trail, as a training or open trail experience? Check out this Youtube video that shows Tim Gentle, an [...]