Run Buller
Mt Buller and Mt Stirling’s pristine environment and sensational trails have long been popular with walkers, hikers and mountain bikers, and now offers trail runners an ideal destination – just three hours’ from Melbourne. A cool climate, along with stunning views, varied terrain and a range of trails to suit all levels combine to create one heck of a trail running experience.
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Distance: 4km Loop
Trail Type: Loop
Start + Finish points: Clock Tower
Fast and furious (or calm and cruisey), berms running; moderately technical sections; stunning snowgum groves; views east to the Alps.
Distance: 9km
Trail Type: One way
Start + Finish points: Start: Clock Tower, Mt Buller Village. Finish: Mirimbah Park
Easy gentle gradient descent running, big eucalypt stands.
Distance: 5.9km Loop
Trail Type: Loop
Start + Finish points: Clock Tower
Summit view, fun singletrack on the south side of Baldy.
Distance: 14km
Trail Type: One way
Start + Finish points: Start: Clock Tower, Mt Buller Village Square. Finish: Mirimbah Park
Multiple log bridge river crossings. Fern gullies. Transition from high Alpine Snowgum to Mountain Ash country. Abundant birdsong powered by insect life breeding along the waterways. A soft gradient that makes you feel like you’re flying.
Distance: 8km
Trail Type: Loop
Start + Finish points: Telephone Box Junction Car Park (Mt Stirling Alpine Resort)
Cricket Pitch Hut and big views across northern Alps and Mt Cobbler; mix of tall tree forest and snowgum thickets.
Distance: 10km
Trail Type: Loop with some out and back
Start + Finish points: Telephone Box Junction Car Park (Mt Stirling Alpine Resort)
Cruisey contour running; big views across to Mt Buller and down Mirimbah valley; sensational short downhill dash; Razorback Hut.
Distance: 13.5km
Trail Type: Loop
Start + Finish points: Telephone Box Junction Car Park (Mt Stirling Alpine Resort)
A line-up of alpine huts; magnificent northerly views; Mt Stirling Peak with 360-degree views, including back to Mt Buller; good mix of denser big tree forest down low to the sparse high alp plains of Stirling.
Distance: 21km
Trail Type: Loop with out and back section to Craig's Hut
Start + Finish points: Telephone Box Junction Car Park (Mt Stirling Alpine Resort)
Craig’s Hut and the ghosts of The Man From Snowy River (or Tom Burlinson at least); big views from Craig’s Hut over Northern Alps, Cobbler and Mt. Buffalo; 360-degree views from Mt Stirling; fun bomb down Bluff Spur Trail; wildflowers of Sterling plains.
Distance: 8.2km
Trail Type: Loop
Start + Finish points: Clock Tower Mt Buller Village
Big alpine views to the east, super technical trail on Little Mount Buller (1558m), even bigger views from the trig point at the summit, fine flowy running on Summit Nature Walk return trail.
