4 Reasons to Mountain Bike in Beechworth this Year Beechworth Mountain Biking As the morning fog lifts in this charming North East town, you can understand why Beechworth is grand jewel in this part of Victoria. For many years the area has been living off the spoils of tourism, fueled by its colonial streetscape, historical buildings and affiliations with Australia's most infamous bushranger, Ned Kelly. In recent years Beechworth has attracted a new wave of motivated and driven entrepreneurs, cementing the town as a foodie hotspot in the North East Valleys region and attracting a changing and cashed up visitor that reflects this demographic shift. Beechworth is also central to a wide variety of mountain biking and cycling infrastructure that is also helping to shift the visitors from pensioner buses to cycle tourists. Mountain bikers are well and truly a notable and welcomed visitor and with a variety of trails built, catering to all levels of riders and talks of further investment, Beechworth is on the brink to becoming a world class mountain bike destination in the years to come. On multiple visits the terrain continues to surprise and inspire, whether that be from new trails cut by the passionate, local club 'the chain gang', the opening of new areas such as the Flame Trees trail, with singletrack edging the rail trail or discovering the singletrack through the pine plantations and down to Yackandandah. All levels of mountain bike riders are catered for here, yet as with many mtb destinations,