Cycling the 161km Brisbane Valley Rail Trail (We are Explorers)
A new article published by We Are Explorers on bikepacking the BVRT
The Brisbane Valley Rail Trail is 161km of baked goods, beers, coffee, oh and bikepacking of course! Here’s how to explore this historical rail trail and the quaint towns that do it on two wheels.
On The Brisbane Valley Rail Trail at Last
By all accounts, the Brisbane Valley Rail Trail, or ‘BVRT’ for short, sounded like my kind of cycle tour. Winding along a decommissioned railway corridor, the trail passes through a collection of quaint country towns, and being built for locomotive traffic, the overall gradient is fairly mellow.
The more popular choice is to start at Yarraman and ride ‘down valley’ enjoying gravity’s gentle assistance for the majority of the journey. With no vehicles allowed, a well-maintained gravel surface, and plenty of pubs and bakeries to refuel, it really is a cyclist’s dream.
After years of saying ‘We should do that’, four friends and I finally got ourselves organised, and planned a three-day tour of the BVRT in April of 2021
For me, the BVRT definitely lived up to expectations. It was a fun and chilled adventure with just the right mix of scenery, camaraderie, toil, and history. Fuelled by plenty of locally acquired baked goods, coffee, and cold beers, of course.
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Lachlan Gardiner
We are Explorers
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