Great Divide Rail Trail (4.5km), Western Victoria, Victoria

Great Divide Rail Trail is a 4.5km, grade 2 hike located in the Western Victoria, Victoria. The hike should take around 1.5 hrs to complete.

Length: 4.5km

Duration: 1.5 hrs

Grade: 2

Style: One Way

Start: Leonards Hill

End: Wombat

Location: Western Victoria

Closest town: Leonards Hill

Victoria

From state capital: 110km

Longitude: 144.1111213

Latitude: -37.42185964

Hike summary

These sections are suitable for walking only. The trails are not maintained as rail trails, but as part of the GDT.

The trail follows two short sections of the Daylesford to Creswick railway.
Two sections of this trail are open for walking, Leonards Hill to Wombat, and near Jubilee Lake. Both sections are used by the Great Dividing Trail (GDT), a marked walking route from Ballarat to Daylesford, Bendigo and Bacchus Marsh
At Jubilee Lake you can see the remnants of an interesting bridge. The train went across the top of the span, and the pedestrians walked underneath.

Much of the terrain is dry, open stringybark forest.

The Daylesford Spa Country Railway runs tourist trains from Daylesford to Bullarto. They will carry bikes.

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Leonards Hill to Wombat in Western Victoria

110km north west of Melbourne, near Daylesford

Compacted earth

Undulating

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