Great Dividing Trail - Dry Diggings Track (62km), Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park, Victoria

Great Dividing Trail - Dry Diggings Track is a 62km, grade 3 hike located in the Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park, Victoria. The hike should take around 4 days to complete.

Length: 62km

Duration: 4 days

Grade: 3

Style: One Way

Start: Lake Daylsford

End: Castlemaine

Location: Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park

Closest town: Daylsford

Victoria

From state capital: 113km

Longitude: 144.1371489

Latitude: -37.34793374

Route and GPX file

Total distance: 61739 m
Max elevation: 564 m
Min elevation: 277 m
Total climbing: 1384 m
Total descent: -1625 m

Download file: Great Dividing Trail - Dry Diggings Track.gpx

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About the region

The Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park is near the town of Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia. The park protects a nationally significant historic cultural landscape of heritage value and relics of the Victorian gold rush. The Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park was added to the Victorian Heritage Register in December 2003. It is the largest non-indigenous protected cultural landscape in Australia. In January 2005 the park was added to the Australian National Heritage List recognizing its outstanding heritage value and importance in the course of Australia’s migration history.

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