Otago central rail trail

When the gold rush hit Otago people started to populate the remote and harsh inland parts of the province. This led to the need for increased transportation and the Otago rail way was built.

The trains stopped running here a long time ago and the former tracks have now been turned into bike trails. The bike trail starts in the small town of Clyde and takes 3-4 days to complete. We did not have enough time for a four day bike trip but we still had a great one day biking experience along the first part of the trail.

With our odometer reading 53kilometers at the of the day our sore bottoms were very happy that we only had time to complete the first leg of the journey