Great Mountain Biking areas

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New South Wales

• The Royal National Park: The Nasho, as it's affectionately known, is best explored by one of two techniques: either get someone who knows their way around it to show you the trails, or go in and get lost. The NPWS publishes a map of the area, which shows some of the trails, but there are plenty missing from this map because they inhabit a grey area between official trail and streambed-in-time-of-rain.

  The best place to start riding the Nasho is the Northern end of the Park. The patch bounded by Greys Point, Farnell Ave, the Princes Highway and the river has about 20km of trails and dirt road, and it's very hard to get truly lost, though it's easy to get quite confused. South of Farnell Ave, follow the Loftus Trig Fire Trail toward Heathcote.

  Pretty much every trail you see is rideable, though some don't actually go anywhere. Again, getting lost is hard, as the trail network here is sandwiched between the railway line and some steep, trail-free valleys. Don't follow signs to Audley unless you truly like walking, though.

  Dropping down Farnell Ave into Audley, Lady Carrington Walk is a very easy out and back amble through rainforest by the river.

• Helensburgh
• Illawong/Menai
• Lane Cove National Park
• Kangaroo Valley
• Thredbo

Australian Capital Territory

Victoria

• The Dandenongs

Queensland

• Mt Cootha

South Australia

Northern Territory

Western Australia

• John Forrest National Park

Tasmania

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