Services on the East Gippsland Rail Trail

The East Gippsland Rail Trail is book ended by Bairnsdale in the west and Orbost in the east, both of which offer a fairly wide range of services. In between on the rail trail itself are just 3 towns: Nicholson, Bruthen and Nowa Nowa. These are all small towns with limited services. In addition there are some locations essentially in the middle of nowhere but offer some welcome services.

Lakes Entrance is 25 km off the rail trail, but is joined to the rail trail by the Gippsland Lakes Discovery Trail and it's on road continuation.

Details for bike repair and transport services can be found below the table.

Distances and population sizes below are indicative only!

Services East Gippsland Rail Trail

NOTE: Scroll the table below to the left for more information

Location	km W	km E	Popn.	Accommodation	Food	Water	Toilet	Car Park
Bairnsdale	0	97	13,000	Wide range: guesthouse, motels, caravan parks	Supermarkets, restaurants, cafes.	Howitt Park	Howitt Park	Howitt Park
Nicholson	10	87	500	Small motel, caravan park	General store, pub.	On trail ( trailer), riverside park	Riverside park	Riverside park
Bruthen	30	67	600	Cottages, pub.	Pub, cafes, general store.	Main street	Main street	Main street
Colquhoun Forest (locality)	45	52	nil	nil	nil	Water drum (check status with us)	nil	forestry roadsides
Nowa Nowa	60	37	300	Motel, caravan parks, cabins.	Pub, cafe, general store	Main street	Main street	Main street
Partellis Crossing Rd (locality)	75	22	nil	nil	nil	Water drum (check status with us)	Pit toilet	Limited
Orbost	97	0	2000	Motels, pubs.	Supermarkets, cafes, pubs.	Forest Park	Forest Park	Forest Park
Lakes Entrance (via Discovery Trail)	65	80	4500	Wide range of styles and standards	Supermarkets, restaurants, cafes.	Esplanade	Esplanade	Esplanade

Bike Repairs

Bike Repairs and parts

Bairnsdale: Riviera Cycles has a full workshop and range of spare parts - they are the only bike shop in East Gippsland. Monday - Friday 9.00 - 5.30; not open weekends. (because they want to go riding on the weekend too).

Lakes Entrance. Venture Out is a bike and kayak hire business that stocks standard spare parts for bikes and has some repairs capacity. Contact them for opening hours as they also run tours.

Orbost. Snowy River Cycling ( that's us) has limited spare parts and some repairs capacity. We are often out and about so contact us if you need some help.

Transport

Transport Services

Snowy River Cycling no longer provides passenger transfer services, as we move to significantly reduce our carbon emissions. We encourage use of the Vline bus service which has 2 to 3 services daily between Bairnsdale and Orbost. We can provide bike transfers, or provide bike hire with pick up / drop off options at either end of the rail trail.

Venture Out provide shuttle services for cyclists and bikes out of Lakes Entrance.

Vline Coach Services transport passengers only, but will not transfer your bike.