There are some fantastic lakeside camping sites on offer at Lake Lyell Recreation Park. If you are not camping there, you will notice the boom gates as you descend down to the water. You need to pay a $7 to enter (2023) the Recreation Park. Paying allows you to park securely and have access to the bathrooms and possibly have a swim at the lake post ride.

When you leave Lake Lyell Recreation Park, go around the boom gate, up the hill and turn right on Magpie Hollow Road. There is a solid climb with sections of +10% waiting for you. The first ~3km is on tarmac and then you veer left on to a much quieter gravel road. Then at ~5.5km turn left, direction Hampton and continue past Cuthill Road at ~10.5km.

Then at ~12.3km turn right off Hampton Road onto Norman Lee Road which turns to All Flats Road.

At ~17.6km you veer onto Jerrys Meadow Road. Enjoy this gravel section as you ride past beautiful Australian cattle farms. Then you begin to descend. Please use caution as there are some fast corners and sections may be corrugated.

At ~27km turn right on Sodwalls Road and begin to head back to the start.

The climbing has not finished. You go over the train line twice and over Antonio Creek before the start of a ~2.2 km climb which averages ~5%.

At the top of Sodwells Road complete a quick right and then left and then it is predominately all downhill all the way back to Lake Lyell Recreation Park.