Merri Creek Singletrack Trail Report - Variable - Jun 3, 2026

The Merri Creek Singletrack is newly cleared, and is open all the way from Coburg Lake to the Link Trail that joins onto Edwardes St in the north. Badlands BLACK that continues on, is ridable - but has not been cleared... still rideable but definitely still a bit overgrown.

It still has a few issues here and there, and in wetter days some areas along the track down by the river can get a bit muddy - but still passable. All the thorny overhang has been cleared, and overgrown parts of the trail have been cleared. There are still sections of the old trail that haven't been cleared, but there is at least one good MTB trail all the way along the trail now.

A few sections have A-Line and B-Line options, some of the B-Lines are just riding along grassy park/path. Some of the A-Lines are a lot more challenging, and have some high exposure points along steep edges and cliffs, side crash areas full of cactuses, rubbish, concrete blocks, and rocks hidden in grass... So don't crash off the trail if you can help it. The whole trail is a mix of GREEN easy park trail, BLUE single track with some more challenging riding and the A-Lines and a few sections I would consider BLACK with some really hard or high exposure sections.

But if you are in Melbourne inner areas, and you haven't got the time to travel out to one of the Trail Parks (Plenty Gorge, CandleBark Park, Lysterfield, or The You Yangs etc... ) and you want a slightly more challenging ride but more local that you can do in an hour or two... and ride to it on bikeways/easy trails... Merri Creek Singletrack is definitely on ave. a moderate/harder BLUE trail in the city area, that you can pair up with some other easier trails around that area for a bit of a ride!