Spring Gully is the home trailhead of the Bendigo Mountain Bike Club and the primary purpose-built MTB hub for Greater Bendigo, located ~5 km south of Bendigo CBD in the suburb of Spring Gully. The trailhead at the end of Wattle Drive (sometimes mapped as Muldoon Reserve, 14 Wattle Drive) sits at the edge of One Tree Hill Regional Park (now part of Greater Bendigo National Park) and offers a small precinct of beginner-friendly infrastructure: a 4.5 km Green Loop, a skills loop, one of the country's largest pump tracks (built by TrailScapes in 2017 with 1,000+ tonnes of imported soil), and a small jump line. From there, riders can drop into a vast interconnected network of rocky, technical "Goldfields-style" singletrack that climbs the ridges of One Tree Hill and stretches all the way to Strathdale.
The terrain is classic central Victorian goldfields: dry, dusty Red Iron Bark and Grey Box bushland over loose rock and quartz scatter. Trails are narrow, rocky and abrasive — local advice is to run higher tyre pressures and consider tyre inserts. The Bendigo MTB Club traces its origins to nine riders meeting at the Spring Gully General Store in 1986, formalising as a club in 1989. The club still uses Spring Gully as its hit-out point for Sunday rides and runs the popular Tuesday-evening Summer Series dirt crits on the Green Loop, regularly drawing 200+ entries.
Spring Gully is a free, dawn-to-dusk style network on public bushland. It has hosted AusCycling MTB National Series XCO rounds (most recently rounds 5 & 6 of the 2022/23 series in April 2023). A 2017 master plan by World Trail proposed a 14-trail / 50+ km network but progress has been slow — the Council handed the master plan to DELWP/Parks Victoria in 2018 and the larger network has not been built out in the decade since. Most current trails on the ground are club-built or legacy bushland tracks, with the Green Loop and pump-track precinct being the only formally-constructed Stage 1 infrastructure.
Note on the lat/lng review: the user's research brief flagged the existing coords as potentially a stale La Larr Ba Gauwa value. La Larr Ba Gauwa is at Picnic Gully Rd, Harcourt (~-37.04S, 144.23E), so this is not the case. Three independent sources put the Wattle Drive trailhead within a few metres of the existing DB value. Coords confirmed correct; no change needed.
Commonwealth Games connection: When Victoria was awarded the 2026 Commonwealth Games, Bendigo was named one of the regional hubs and there was speculation Spring Gully could host MTB events. The Victorian state government cancelled the 2026 Victorian Games on 18 July 2023. The Games were re-awarded to Glasgow without MTB in the initial sport list. As of mid-2026, Spring Gully has no Commonwealth Games legacy.
Cultural significance: The land is Djaara (Dja Dja Wurrung) country. Greater Bendigo National Park (which absorbed One Tree Hill Regional Park) is one of six jointly managed parks under the 2013 Recognition and Settlement Agreement between the Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation and the Victorian Government.