Marathon Values Rail Trail
A record 1,180 entries in central Victoria's 2021 O’Keefe Challenge participated in the event's Friday night ride, as well as the Sunday running and relay events. The event raised much needed funds for the Heathcote [...]
Trail Upgrades to Enjoy
Looking to experience what the O'Keefe Rail Trail has to offer this weekend, perhaps to escape the couch watching TV time? The good news is that this rail trail is open 24/7, so anytime is [...]
Light the Trail
The O’Keefe Challenge came back in 2021 bigger than ever, with a record 1,180 entries across the night ride, running and relay events. Not only a great experience and a physical test for entrants, the [...]
Ride to Support Local Communities
The ‘Cycle Dindi’ event returned to the scenic Great Victorian Rail Trail on Saturday, 17 April 2021, this being its fifth year organised jointly by the Rotary Clubs of Yea and Alexandra. With the attractions of [...]
Sunrise for School Students
With parents delivering bikes in cars or trailers, and children gathering together, the rural setting of Longlea’s Peppercorn Park was not the normal place for the Axedale Primary School’s Principle watching over her pupils. It [...]
Heathcote Students Ride2School
As the early sunrise produced shafts of light through the trees within the One Eye Forest, highlighting cyclists waiting on the O’Keefe Rail Trail, what were these riders waiting for? It was an exciting time [...]
Needing a reason to escape to the country?
Planning a trail ride or walk over Easter with friends? Or wondering where to next explore rural Victoria that combines some exercise with enjoying food and refreshments at a cafe, a restaurant, winery or boutique [...]
O’Keefe’s connection with Tooborac?
Over the past 28 years, the O'Keefe Rail Trail has extended along the former 'Wandong, Heathcote, Sandhurst railway line' to be now approximately 50kms between Bendigo and Heathcote. A 2018 feasibility study's report determined that [...]
Experience the New Year with O’Keefe
What a year 2020 has been! So many challenges for the world's population, including for those who love an escape to enjoy what off-road trails have to offer. Yet for many in COVID19 lock-downs, such [...]
Trail Signs for Reserves
What did you do on Friday 13th, perhaps nothing if you are superstitious! Yet six members of the Friends of the Bendigo-Kilmore Rail Trail, plus one member from the Junortoun Community Action Group, were out [...]