Discover the incredible bike trails of Yackandandah
Yackandandah Holiday Park is the perfect base for your next cycling adventure. Just a short drive from the Yack Tracks network, you can spend your days exploring scenic forest trails, winding singletracks and stunning bushland before returning to the park to relax and recharge. Whether you’re planning a weekend riding getaway or a longer stay, we’re perfectly placed to help you make the most of everything Yackandandah has to offer.
Yack Tracks
For The Thrill Seekers: The Yackandandah Mountain Bike Track Network (Yack Tracks) is located in Stanley State Forest and developed by local volunteers from Yack Tracks Inc. in collaboration with DEECA.
Featuring sustainable, low-impact cross-country trails, Yack Tracks offers an immersive riding experience through beautiful forest surrounds, incorporating historic mining water races and flowing trail sections. Designed for intermediate riders, the network provides long, uninterrupted trails with excellent grip and a focus on enjoyable, accessible riding.
Getting there: From town, follow Bells Flat Road and continue straight onto Yack Gate Road. The trailhead is marked on Google Maps.
Beechworth to Yackandandah Rail Trail
In Order Of Distance
Yack Tracks
After you have mastered the basic green loop take the right-hand turn (black & white sign) to Bogan’s Run, if you conquer that one take the left-hand turn on to Carcass Canyon, with those two under your belt you can tackle any Yack Track!
Crank right off the Shack Track climb on to Lello’s Link, then roll 1.9km allong Willow Tree Track (fire road) to the entrance of Shark Attack (at the intersection on your right). With Shark under your belt you have a shorter bail-out option to get you home if the legs are suffering, or hit the testing climb of Reo summit before enjoying the 5km decent of Kokoda. Ride Lello’s in reverse then cruise back to the trailhead via Shack Track (following the green arrows). Of course you may choose to divert onto the Diggers Loop at this point; it’s only an extra 17km…
Leave the trailhead via the access road, turn right across Yackandandah Creek and at the Reservoir hook left and follow the yellow arrows. There is a shorter bail-out option available after Wheely Wavey climb but if you’re still powering on, head over the top of the ridge and enjoy Port Hill descent and 2Up climb before heading home via Birthday Route. Warning: the race section of this loop has steep gradients close to the track. Avoid riding if you don’t feel comfortable.
Start with the Shack Track climb before tackling Highway to Hill which utilises sections of shallow gradient gold mining races (thanks miners!) to break up this solid climb then rip home via Diggers Decline, Minty Badger and the evocatively named Bitch’n Moan’n. Sounds complex but all you need to do is follow the red arrows.
Weave through Stanley State Forest’s scenic bushland and historic gold mining water races on cross-country singletrack at Yackandandah MTB Park. Embrace the flow on long unbroken segments and take on tree-lined cross-country climbs. This year-round park’s hand-built, intermediate network is divided into 5 loops for an immersive ride experience and also connects to the new Indigo Epic trail.
Location: Yack Gate Rd, Yackandandah
Total trail distance: 70km
Number of trails: 1 Green & 25 Blue
Highlight trails: Diggers Red Loop, Carcass Canyon, Shack Loop & Indigo Epic Trail Yackandandah Loop
Trail access: All trails are pedal accessed
Bike hire: BYO bike
Toilets & water: Drop toilet, no water available on-site
Closest town: Yackandandah
Send it on 56km of All Mountain singletrack wilderness trail connecting the historic towns Beechworth and Yackandandah
Indigo Epic
Open year-round and built to an intermediate rating, go at your own pace on this wilderness machine and hand-built destination ride. The Indigo Epic trail offers something for everyone with A and B-line features running through picturesque scenery. Choose from point-to-point, small loop and full loop ride options with the trail’s thoughtful helix loop design.
Start location: Beechworth Cycling trailhead (Harper Ave, Beechworth) or Yackandandah Township/Yack Tracks Trailhead
Total trail distance: 56km
Number of trails: 1 Blue