Great Dividing Trail

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The path leads mountain bikers through the Creswik Regional Park

The Great Dividing Trail is a 304-kilometer trail for hikers and mountain bikers in Australia .

It leads through the Great Dividing Range , the largest mountain range in Australia. The hiking trail is located in the state of Victoria , northwest of Melbourne and has also been accessible with mountain bikes since 2011.

Goldfield Track

The Great Dividing Trail also includes the historic Goldfield Tracks with a distance of 210 kilometers.

The Goldfield Tracks include the Eureka Track , part of the Wallaby Track , Dry Diggings Track and Leanganook Track . The Goldfield Tracks follows trails laid out by the gold diggers in the 1850s when one of the largest gold rushes in the world took place there, the Bathurst, Bendigo, Ballarat and Mount Alexander gold rushes .

Sections of the Great Dividing Trail

The hikers and mountain bikers on the Great Dividing Track hike over mountains and through canyons, forests, parks and national parks and cross streams. The Great Dividing Track consists of six sections. These are the Eureka Track , Wallaby Track , Dry Diggings Track , Leanganook Track , Lerderderg Track and Caspagne Track .

The name Eureka Track (43 km) recalls the sheep shearers' rebellion in the 1890s that began in the area. The sheep shearers union emerged from the Eureka rebellion . Participants in the strike were also founders of the Australian Labor Party and founding members of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901. The Eureka Track forms part of the Wallaby Track. This trail runs from Buninyong to Creswick .

The Wallaby Track (52 km + Eureka Trek) leads from Buninyong, Ballarat , Creswick to Daylesford . It is named after the black wallabies that live in the area.

The Dry Diggings Track (36 miles) runs from Daylesford to Castlemain . This path connects the two historic gold rush towns.

The Leanganook Track (61 km) runs from Castlemaine to Bendigo .

The Lerderderg Track (90 km) runs from Daylesford and Blackwood to Bacchus Marsh .

The Caspagne Trail is a 40-kilometer trail that has not yet been developed for mountain bikers. It runs from Blackwood to Firth Park.

Others

The sections of the route can be walked on any part of the route. They do not lead through deserted areas, but there are settlements along the roads.

All trails were planned and laid out by the Great Dividing Trail Association , a non-profit organization .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Goldfield Tracks , on goldfieldstrack.com.au. Retrieved July 11, 2018
  2. ↑ Eureka Treck , on gdt.org.au. Retrieved July 11, 2018
  3. ↑ Wallaby Track on gdt.org.au. Retrieved July 11, 2018
  4. ↑ Dry Diggins Track , on gdt.org.au. Retrieved July 11, 2018
  5. ↑ Leanganock Track , on gdt.org.au. Retrieved July 11, 2018
  6. ↑ Great Dividing Trail , at bushwalkingvictoria.org.au. Retrieved July 11, 2018
  7. ↑ Caspagne Trail  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on gdt.org.au. Retrieved July 11, 2018@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / gdt.org.au  

Coordinates: 37 ° 2 ′ 11.1 ″  S , 146 ° 55 ′ 16.9 ″  E