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The Great Vic Gravel Route: Crossing Victoria on Unsealed Roads (2022)
The best way to travel across Victoria when you want to avoid the asphalt and enjoy quiet dirt roads.
If you live in Victoria, Australia, we can answer that question using the detailed data in OpenStreetMap; the “Wikipedia of maps” and the dataset used by many cycling, off-road and bushwalking apps. If you live in Melbourne, it looks like you can take the train to Riddells Creek or Macedon and ride to the north-west corner of Victoria without ever hitting asphalt for more than 1 km at a time. Which way would we go, if we wanted to design a route from the west to the east of Victoria on dirt roads and vehicle tracks (not bike paths), with the minimum possible distance of paving?
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