Lakes Entrance Bed and Breakfast Retreat

Accreditaion Goldsmith's in the Forest
Harrison's Track Lakes Entrance, Vic 3909 Ph. 61 03 51552518
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Riding the Rail Trail Bairnsdale to Lakes Entrance    See also www.eastgippslandrailtrail.com

From Bairnsdale through to Bruthen, across the Tambo river  to the Colquhoun Forest     BIKE HIRE
Next part of the rail Trail                                                           Activities in the Local Area

21/11/03 the D.S.E opened the Gippsland lakes Discovery Trail linking the East Gippsland Rail trail to Lakes Entrance. 
        Bairnsdale to Lakes Entrance  65 Km a full day ride
        Bruthen to Lakes 36 km four hours one way
The Gippsland Lakes Discovery Trail follows the route of an old tramway constructed in the early 1900's to move granite from a quarry in the forest to Lakes Entrance. The granite was used to reinforce the timber used to build the permanent entrance which was being eaten away by marine worms. The track was designed so that the steam engine was only required to pull the empty trucks back up to the quarry; so the ride down the old tramway is a gentle, contour following, descent.