Please Note: We are presently revising our website.


 

 

 

 

 

To be launched on 1st June

The GDTA’s comprehensive Goldfields Track Walking Guide will feature large scale maps and in-depth track notes.

The guide contains 160 pages designed to complement the three GDTA maps for the Goldfields Track, designed and produced by Gib Wettenhall.

Included are 36 maps and detailed track notes with photographs complementing every map spread; plus essays on topics by local experts ranging from geology, plants and animals to the rich cultural heritage of the goldfields.

You can soon buy it from this website.

Watch this space!


 

The Great Dividing Trail is a 280km network of tracks that follows the top of the Great Dividing Range in central Victoria.

The 210km Goldfields Track comprises three linked tracks between Buninyong and Ballarat  in the south and Bendigo in the north. The Goldfields Track is both walker and mtb accessible, with signed diversions where single use is required.

Wallaby Track links Buninyong, Ballarat, Creswick and Daylesford.
Dry Diggings Track links Daylesford and Castlemaine.
Leanganook Track links Castlemaine and Bendigo.

Download the Goldfields Track FAQ sheet.

The Lerderderg Track links Daylesford, Blackwood and Bacchus Marsh.

Maps for each track can be bought via this website, from several regional visitor information centres, or from Information Victoria.
The Goldfields Track Walking Guide will soon be available. Watch this space!

A Blackwood to Mount Macedon extension is nearing completion.

An Ararat Circuit walk has been completed as part of the long-term proposal to link with existing tracks between Ballarat and Ararat.  Download the Ararat Circuit Walk map.

NOTE:
Do not walk or ride on GDT tracks in extreme weather, during Planned Burns or on Total Fire Ban days.

Check DSE, CFA, Parks Victoria, BOM websites before you walk.

Carry sufficient water at all times.