Venue

Saved Monday 10th March, 2008 2:59pm by Dean Fogarty
Edited Monday 6th April, 2009 1:22pm by Peter Creagh

Old Hidden Vale is a 10,000 acre working cattle property that features the Peppers Hidden Vale Retreat. The property hosts the annual Flight Centre Cycle Epic, Australia's longest running mountain bike marathon.

In 2007, the property was gazetted as a Nature Refuge and the habitat hosts a wide range of native fauna can been seen on the property including the brush-tailed phascogales, koalas, white-striped freetail bats, lace monitors, several skink, wallaby and bird species. All of this is less than 70 minutes from the CBD of Brisbane.

The property also offers a rustic cabin accommodation experience suitable for families and mountain bike groups.

A number of events are held on the property throughout the year. The following table of events is subject to change.

EVENT

DATE

Old Hidden Vale MTB Feista
Labor Day long weekend featuring the
Merida 24 Hour Race
Mulgowie Muster
Indi Junior MTB Race

2 - 3 May 2009
Cyclocross Race 14 June 2009

Paluma Push
North Queenslands best kept secret, 45 or 70km point point mtb race.

19 July 2009

3PLUS3 MTB Enduro
2 x 3 hour races ovr the weekend. Epic lead up event.

25 - 26 July 2009

Flight Centre Cycle Epic Festival
featuring a two day trade show and the following:
Peppers 75km Enduro
Mini Epic 5km
Minor Epic 16km
Merida Chaser 20km
Merida Pursuit 54km
Flight Centre Classic 108km



22 August 2009
22 August 2009 22 August 2009
22 August 2009
23 August 2009
23 August 2009
Dirty Duo XC Duathlon
20 Sept 2009
National Cyclocross Championships 4 Oct 2009
FCm Corporate Criterium
15 Nov 2009
Inferno Race 1 14 March 2010
Inferno Race 2 11 April 2010
   

 

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