Reform Hill Walking Track is a 3.5km, grade 3 circuit hike located in Myrtleford Plantation, Victoria. The hike should take around 1.5 hours to complete.
Warning
A good track for the whole year. Only real risk is old mine shafts but the track is perfectly safe and easy to follow. You'd have to be trying hard to get lost!
Hike overview
A lovely short walk that you can do from Myrtleford itself. Great views of the town, Mt Buffalo and up the Ovens Valley to Mts Hotham & Feathertop. There is a well marked track near some of the old gold mining equipment. Head up the hill and at the first fork take the left track. There is plenty of side trips to view some points of interest from the gold mining days or a memorial to Hume & Hovell.
The track starts at Percy Reserve, just near an old ore crusher where it heads up hill. Shortly after the track branches left and right. This is the start of the loop you will hike. Take the left track where you soon come to a memorial to the early European explorers Hume and Hovell who travelled this way in 1824.
As you make your way up the track there is mine shafts and entrances. The concrete basin was an early town water supply. You eventually see a sign on a spur up to the lookout. It's only 100m and the views of the town and up the King Valley as far as the alps and Mt Buffalo in particular are excellent.
Retrace your steps to the main track and head down the Spur track. It swings away from town for a while before a sharp turn back to follow the contour of the hill back to where you joined the loop near the start.
There are a number of short side tracks not shown on this GPX file but like the rest of the track they are well signposted. By taking these excursions you could add up to another 2 km to the trip.
Route and GPX file
Max elevation: 368 m
Min elevation: 221 m
Total climbing: 208 m
Total descent: -208 m
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Getting there
Jones Reserve is on the main road heading from Myrtleford towards Bright. Still within the 60km zone you'll see Jones Reserve and the Murray to the Mountains bike trail on the left. Plenty of parking along the road.
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About the region
Myrtleford is a great stop for lunch and a walk around. You pass through it on the way to Bright & Mt Hotham or Buffalo. Myrtleford Plantation is a forest in Victoria. Myrtleford Plantation is situated east of Lookout Hill, and east of Nill Gully Reservoir.
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