The Goldfields Track - Leanganook Track

Castlemaine - Bendigo

Length:  58 kilometres
Walk:  3½ days (4 separate day walks)
Track:  Moderate
Grade:  Easy/medium
Start:  Castlemaine township
Finish:  Bendigo Railway Station 
Nearby:  Castlemaine, Bendigo
Permits/bookings:  None required
Best time:  Spring or autumn.

Leanganook Track is part of the Goldfields Track, a superb 210 kilometre walking trail that connects the towns of Ballarat and Bendigo via scenic villages such as Castlemaine, Hepburn, Daylesford and Creswick.

Leanganook Track is the northern section of the Goldfields Track and passes through Australia’s first National Heritage Park, the Castlemaine Diggings National Park. The walk passes extraordinary examples of gold rush engineering including the Garfield Water Wheel and the Coliban Water System with its tunnels, channels, falls and dissipators.  

Stunning vistas from the Specimum Gully Road lookout, manna gum and box ironbark forests, and the large granite formation known as Dog Rocks are just some of natural wonders. On the outskirts of Bendigo, the Salomon Gully Flora Reserve is renowned for its wildflowers. Box ironbark heathland, gold dust wattle, grevilleas and orchids are just some of the varieties you'll find.

Make sure you take some time to enjoy each end of this wonderful track. Castlemaine and Bendigo offer so much to the visitor including superb food and wine, wonderful accommodation and some of the best regional art galleries in Australia.
 
The Goldfields Track is part of the Great Dividing Trail, 300km of trails that provide a pathway to the hidden treasures of Central Victoria.  The other legs of the Goldfields Track are the Wallaby Track from Mt Buninyong to Daylesford and the Dry Diggings Track that links Daylesford to Castlemaine.
 
For more information and maps visit www.gdt.org.au.

Note
If planning to mountain bike on the track please refer to gdt.org.au as some sections, for safety reasons, are currently inaccessible for mountainbiking.