Route Metrics

Start: Bonnie Doon

Finish: Yea

Distance: 75.2 km

Altitude Gain:   568m

Ride Time: 4:20 h:mm

Road Surface: Rail Trail, sealed and gravel roads

Monuments: Woodfield, Yarck and Yea

Points of Interest

• The Great Victorian Rail Trail

• Old Gobur Rd

• The beautiful Goulburn River views along Killingworth Rd

• The Yea Wetlands

• Surveyor Pinniger Memorial - centre plantation

Route Metrics - Easier

Start: Bonnie Doon

Finish: Yea

Distance: 67.6 km

Altitude Gain:   489 m

Ride Time: 3:50 h:mm

Road Surface: Sealed roads and rail trail, with gravel over the interesting Killingworth Road. Moderate grade

Monuments: Woodfield, Yarck and Yea

Cyclist Services

Camping, toilets, water and food at:

• Yarck recreation ground and  

• Molesworth and Yea Caravan Parks

The Explorers' Journey

A 3 day journey initially climbing over a ridge to the Home Creek valley and down sloping land to the Goulburn River (10th of the trip) at Molesworth. 

Their camps were on Home Creek 2 mile N of Yarck on Dec 2, the Goulburn River / Home Creek delta on Dec 3 and the Muddy (Yea River) Creek, 1 mile south of Yea where they stayed for the two nights of Dec 4 & 5 repairing their clothes and shoes and resting their animals on good grass. The bike route mostly follows their trek and certainly if the alternate route via Growlers Gully Rd is taken.

Traditional Owners

Traditional owners of the lands you will traverse are the Taungurung peoples