Mountain Biking

Victoria is blessed with two great world class natural recreational advantages. One is the extensive and accessible natural cross country skiing areas and the other is the mountain biking opportunities in an undeveloped natural environment.

There are national parks and state forests with great mountain biking opportunities within a few hours reach of most Victorians. Victoria has the climate for comfortable and practical year round mountain biking.

After cross country skiing mountain biking is considered the second best activity to achieve overall fitness levels.

Mountain bike racing may be mainly for the young (although the annual Mitta Mitta to Mount Beauty citizen race is designed for everyone with a reasonable level of fitness). However mountain bike touring offers something for every age. There are trails suitable for riders with only a very moderate level of fitness. In a matter of hours you can ride to spectacular locations that would take days to hike to. The ability to cover up to 50km in a day means that you can visit great off road locations without the need to lug camping and  cooking gear, and three days food and fuel.

The very best of the opportunities are the Alpine areas accessible from Mount Beauty, Australia's Mountain Biking capital. 

Mount Beauty has a fabulous and challenging mountain bike park, with a trail head only a convenient few hundred metres from the main shopping centre, cafe's and bakery. There are over a dozen tracks in this compact and area on the slopes of Mt Beauty itself, including the nationals and state competition cross-country tracks and the national downhill track. From Kiewa View it is only a few minutes to the trail head. Left out of the driveway and left again into Mountain Avenue, cross Roper Street and left again at the corner of the Golf course into Tawonga Cres. For the Survey Track it is left just before the Bogong High Plains Road. For all the other tracks. For the start of all other tracks the start is at the staging area across the Bogong High Plains Road to your right. There is a large trail map at the staging area. Click on thumbnail to right for outline..

Further a field, he area offers a huge versatility in terrain and views. There are huts to visit, valleys to ride down, mountains and hills to climb, rivers, creeks and aqueducts to follow and cross, and plains to explore. On hot summer days you can head for the High Plains and mountain tops for the cool altitude. Year round the dense lower forests offer protection from the wind and worst of the rain. 

There are easy almost flat tracks from a few kilometers to 40 kilometers. There are tracks requiring medium fitness and intermediate skills. There are some long down hill one way tracks, and strenuous tracks requiring a high skill level.

Some tracks start and finish at Mount Beauty, others start and finish on the high plains, some start and finish part way up the mountain, and yet others start at the top and end at Mount Beauty.

It is all there to enjoy. Don't leave without trying it.

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