Bikepacking The Reisling and Rattler Trail

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Barinia Rd, White Hut to Clare (10 km)
The trail starts at Barinia Rd, White Hut. Commencing with beautiful farmland areas it features a quality surface through shady cuttings and bridges before coming out to north from the site of Clare railway station.
Clare to Auburn (25 km)
This is the original section of the trail and is maintained to a very high standard. There are interpretive signs and wineries along the way.
The trail starts at a carpark at the old railway yard. The station is gone, but a new shelter has been built next to Leasingham Winery.
After a further 5 km you reach Sevenhill, where you pass the cemetery on your descent into Clare. St Aloysius’ Church and Sevenhill Cellars are a short distance up College Rd.
At Penwortham, Highway 83 crosses beneath the trail and follows it to Clare. Visit historic St Mark’s church (visible from the trail and accessible from Pawelski Rd) where district pioneer John Horrocks was buried in 1846. John Horrocks’ cottage can also be viewed on the corner of Surrey Ln and Horrocks Highway.
Cross the highway with care and enjoy the gentle descent to Pentwortham, and Watervale . After bypassing the site of a missing bridge, the trail descends gently to Leasingham.
Arrives north from Auburn station and cross the bridge that opened in 2019 to enable the rail trail to be entirely on the old railway corridor, 25 years after the Riesling Trail began.
Auburn to Riverton (19 km)
The entrance to Auburn is through a shady corridor of pines, then past the oval and on to the site of Auburn station. The town centre is a little further at the end of Church St.
Take a break at the Rynie railway station site shelter.
The trail terminates at the northern end of the Riverton Oval (enter off Oxford Tce). Take time to check out Riverton’s magnificent intact railway station.