IF YOU’VE been into four-wheel driving for more than a few minutes, chances are you’ve heard of this place. A couple hours northwest of Sydney, just out of Bathurst, the roughly 50km-long Bridle Track was the place to go if you were just cutting your teeth in the off-road scene. Or at least it was up until 2010 when a colossal rockslide at Monaghans Bluff shut the track down for the next decade and a bit. Fast forward to 2023 and the track (finally) reopened and it’s still a fantastic place to spend a sneaky night or two.
It’s not so much about the off-road driving – to be honest you could drive a fair percentage of it in your grandad’s Camry – it’s more about marvelling at the landscape, the wildlife and finding that beaut little campsite that you and the family will remember for the rest of your lives.
