Among mountain bikers this is the best known and most commonly ridden section of the Goldfields Track and understandably so. It has some brilliant sections of single-track, as well as plenty of challenging climbs, descents and creek crossings. The diversity of soil types is huge, so you are always paying attention to grip levels.

Both walkers and mountain bikers will enjoy the distractions of the beautiful and ever-changing scenery; sub-tropical forest one minute, all-natural Aussie bush the next. All taking in an amazing cultural landscape replete with ruins and artefacts of the gold rush days.

For mountain bikers the best sections of this 60km Track include the loamy single-track section that begins (if riding from Hepburn Springs) at Porcupine Ridge Road. No berms, no tricks, just flow at its best. Another is the Poverty Gully water race that signals you are closing in on Castlemaine. It's a marvel of gold rush engineering that could have been designed for mountain biking, 120 years before the sport was invented.

But perhaps the best thing about the Dry Diggings Track is no matter which way you walk or ride the last few km is downhill. Now that's all class!