Best Mountain Bike Trails in Bethunes Gully/Forrester Park

OPEN

Easy

88m

-23m

37 min

124 (Grade 2 Beginner)This track links the lower football field section of K9, traverse across the hill to the intersection of Cluny and Norwood St, so you can ride up Bethune’s Gully. Watch the Road Crossing for Cars.

OPEN

Very difficult

620m

-115m

1h 52m

Main descent route from the top of the Nat's Track climb. Begins with a series of 4 small/medium sized, but very well built gap-jumps (great fun to session, and all have ride-arounds). The gap jumps are followed by a series of 3 progressively smaller drops (the first is the most difficult, about 3 feet high with a tight run-out), and finishes with a couple of tight corners. The trail ends at the Dead Cow Gully intersection.

OPEN

Intermediate

995m

23m

-82m

1h 40m

Dead Cow Gully Track (Grade 3+ Intermediate)This track provides a link across a gully (where used to be a dead cow) to the lower section of the Nats XC track and connects with the Zig Zag climbing track from the Mt Cargill Track below. It has a narrow bridge, rough traverse around a tree and is mostly technical XC.

OPEN

Easy

2.7 km

83m

-28m

3h 35m

K9 (Grade 1 – 2 Beginner)As you are heading up the main road past the BMX track, there is a gravel track that starts on your right, climbs through shurbs and circuits around the outside of the football playing fields, up a small rise and around the dog kennel area, then up to the top playing field.

OPEN

Intermediate

501m

37m

-13m

3h 38m

Veering left of the In-Out Track, a few steep sharp corners to start with on the relatively gradual climb. When you get to the top veer left around a Skid Site, through a tighter section, over a pipe and then veer left past a locked gate onto Norwood St (Watch for cars), about 50m down the road the tracks veers left onto Zig Zags that traverses the hill, or right down to link with 124 to the football fields.

OPEN

Very difficult

185.8m

5m

-35m

1h 2m

This is a very technical descent. Once committed to the steep chute don’t bail, it has claimed many a rider. When it’s wet it’s a mud slide so no use having brakes.

OPEN

Intermediate

498m

1m

-33m

3h 50m

Haggis Hunter (Grade 3+ - Intermediate to Expert)Head down along a single track which traverses across the hill down to the Mt Cargill Track. This is a technical XC track, with steep log drops, a narrow bridge, rock drop, wet roots and tight corners.

OPEN

Intermediate

795m

22m

-54m

6h 25m

As you head up the Mt Cargill , you can veer hard right and head back up into the forest on a narrow climbing track. A few steep sharp corners to start with on the relatively gradual climb up but the rest is fine (if you don't look down the bank). When you get to the top, watch to the left as riders can drop in from Dead Cow at speed. Follow the track down through some nice bermed corners, sharp corner across a bridge, a log roll and a couple of boardwalks. At the end of the boardwalk, you can follow the track right, to the intersection of Norwood and Cluny St, or you can head left up GLC.

OPEN

Easy

802m

23m

-20m

3h 5m

The Zig Zags (Grade 2 Beginner)On the north face of Forrester above the football fields and dog trails area is a descending track that Zig Zags across the hill to link with K9. This provides a link from the Bethune’s Guilly Tracks from Norwood St and GLC..

OPEN

Easy

976.7m

87m

-3m

7h 38m

Mt. Cargill Walking track The true left hand side tracks can be accessed by riding up the lower section of the Mt. Cargill Walking track and then branching off the track into the forest. Alternatively, you can keep climbing up the Mt Cargill walking track, over Lindsay Creek bridge; climbing for a couple of hundred meters until to reach a skidder track on your left just after a steep pitch and second footbridge. From here the Mt. Cargill Walking Track is strictly a walking track so don't climb up any further. You traverse across the hill on a muddy skid track to the top of the gravel road, head down the road looking out for the entrance of the Haggis Hunter on your left (a Road Cone marks the entrance). The gravel road is on private land so please respect the landowner by not traveling down any further.