Great Dividing Trail/Goldfields Track

The Great Dividing Trail is an established pathway that leads visitors through central Victoria's hidden treasures from deep gorges and fern-lined rivers, to the artefacts and cultural heritage of the greatest gold rush the world has ever seen.

A 260km public walking trail follows the top of the Great Dividing Range from Bacchus Marsh to Bendigo, allowing recreational walkers and tourists the time to savour central Victoria’s unique combination of gold rush heritage and its natural beauty.

Created by a community-owned organisation, the Great Dividing Trail Association (GDTA), the Trail links the old gold rush towns at the heart of Victoria, as well as the forests, hills and lakes, straddling the Great Dividing Range.

The track is broken up into four smaller walks.  The walk from Castlemaine to Bendigo is called the Leanganook Walk.  The section closest to Bendigo along the Leanganook Walk is the Bendigo Goldfields Walk.  It is 11km in distance and goes from the forested hills above Bendigo at the Sandhurst Reservoir via the southern Bendigo suburbs to the Bendigo Railway Station.

The mining wealth of this striking central Victorian city was primarily won in the hundreds of kilometres of shafts and tunnels now under the imposing civic buildings, broad streets, parklands and suburbs of the present-day city of Bendigo. Between the reservoir and Bendigo, the walk passes through a regrowth box-ironbark forest, originally devastated by mining and recently included in a series of national parks to conserve this endangered forest type.

To purchase a Great Dividing Trail Map please contact the Bendigo Information Centre on 1800 813 153.

For more information on the Great Diving Trail and Goldfields Track please visit www.gdt.org.au