New Life for Trail Seats
For the first 20 years, the original Bendigo-Axedale section of the O’Keefe Rail Trail had just four aging ‘recovered’ bench seats installed in 1994, as the only trail user facilities. When the Friends of the [...]
Give Now to Support
Imagine an off-road trail running all the way from Melbourne to Bendigo, through towns like Wallan, Heathcote Junction, Kilmore, Pyalong, Tooborac, Heathcote, Axedale and including the now O'Keefe Rail Trail. How can you help to [...]
Bike Repair Station for Rail Trail
Help for cyclists needing to fix their bike on the O'Keefe Rail Trail has just been installed, perhaps a first for a rail trail in Australia! The provision of a Bike Repair Station has been [...]
Thanks Strathfieldsaye & Districts Community Enterprise
Community helping community can equate to great outcomes for many! Such has seen the Strathfieldsaye & Districts Community Enterprise supporting further development of the O'Keefe Rail Trail user facilities, through the awarding of a 2018 [...]
Councillor reflects on “Rail Trail Tourism”
Greater City of Bendigo Councillor Yvonne Wrigglesworth's published blog on 20th October 2018 has made reference to attending the Friends of the Bendigo-Kilmore Rail Trail AGM and the benefits to be gained from rail trail [...]
Trail Network Needs Your Vote!
A local community bid has made the final list of the 2018 ‘Pick My Project’, which this bid now needs local resident's support. The Junortoun Community Action Group (JCAG) is delighted to advise that their [...]
Rail trail reserve helping to retain endangered species
The O'Keefe Rail Trail is the focus of a project to install nest boxes along a section of the trail, for Brush-tailed Phascogales (Tuans) and Sugar Gliders. These new nest boxes, built by students at Catholic [...]
Thank You!
Assistance provided to Friends of the Bendigo-Kilmore Rail Trail during 2015 and early 2016 has not gone unnoticed. A number of companies, organisations, and City of Greater Bendigo staff, have all assisted the Friends group [...]
New community provided trail facilities
Looking for some creature comforts to take a ‘5 minute rest’ or two, perhaps to have a picnic while out on the O'Keefe Rail Trail? Over the past 4 weeks, users of the O’Keefe Rail [...]
Lions Club of Heathcote – Thank You!
Sunday, 3rd January 2016 was another notable day for the O’Keefe Rail Trail and the Lions Club of Heathcote. This day saw signage, recognising the contribution that the Lions Club of Heathcote has made in [...]