Community Trail Project Begins
The Heathcote Lions Club’s direct support for the O’Keefe Rail Trail took a large step forward on Friday 15th May, for the club’s funded new Rail Trail Pavilion for Heathcote. The day was marked by [...]
The Latest News!
While the current O’Keefe Rail Trail upgrade and extension project continues for the Axedale - Heathcote extension, the Knowsley area and Mt Ida Creek-Lake Eppalock sections are both currently CLOSED to the public. The [...]
Rail Trail Improvements Continue
Soil erosion, collapsed culverts, loss of gravel surface, retained stormwater, exposed rock reefs were just some of what O’Keefe Rail Trail users have endured over a number of years. Yet that situation, in the Bendigo-Axedale [...]
Smart Track Picnic Area
Autumn days in Central Victoria are a great time to experience the outdoors. A new section of the extending O’Keefe Rail Trail meanders through the Knowsley Forest, one of the Bendigo districts managed box-iron bark [...]
A Trail of Two Tunnels!
The O’Keefe Rail Trail has two tunnels, yet were they initially built as tunnels for trains? Unlike many tunnels on rail trails built upon former railway alignments, both these trail tunnels have never had trains [...]
Riding a bay trail and more!
Trail riding is part of the experience of being a member of the Friends of the Bendigo-Kilmore Rail Trail group. A social ride on the Hobsons Bay Coastal Trail was one such recent activity organised [...]
Nature and a bridge caused headaches!
The original contractor of the Bendigo to Heathcote section for the Wandong, Heathcote, Sandhurst Railway probably had many sleepless nights when building the original railway bridge over Axe Creek. In 1887, when travelling along the [...]
Ride2School, a winner for Axedale PS
Out of bed well before sunrise, last minute bike tyre checks, cold faces and fingers, watching a distant bright light from an approaching rider, all added to the excitement of participating in Axedale Primary School’s [...]
Dangerous crossing fixed on a Bendigo Trail
How to make a local trail, directly networked to the O’Keefe Rail Trail in North Bendigo, a whole lot safer? Thanks to the efforts of the City of Greater Bendigo staff and Councillors, the Bendigo [...]
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 [...]