O'Keefe Rail Trail (50km), Northern Victoria, Victoria

O'Keefe Rail Trail is a 50km, grade 2 hike located in the Northern Victoria, Victoria. The hike should take around 3 days to complete.

Length: 50km

Duration: 3 days

Grade: 2

Style: One Way

Start: Bendigo

End: Heathcote

Location: Northern Victoria

Closest town: Bendigo

Victoria

From state capital: 150km

Longitude: 144.2921352

Latitude: -36.74336558

Hike summary

In 2015, the extension from Axedale to Heathcote was opened, resulting in a good quality path of 50 km from Bendigo to Heathcote.

Travels through box-ironbark and yellow gum woodland, along with farmland.
Trail surface is a mix of asphalt sections (townships) and rolled fine to course gravel in the other areas. For cycling, the trail surface overall is currently most suitable for MTB and hybrid bikes - although flat bar racers with sufficiently wide tyres would be fine.

In 2015, the extension from Axedale to Heathcote was opened, resulting in a good quality path of 50 km from Bendigo to Heathcote.

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Bendigo to Heathcote in Northern Victoria

East of Bendigo, 150km from Melbourne

Coarse gravel, Fine gravel, Sealed

Gentle gradient

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