The 2025 Ride
Setting off on Thursday 15 May, the ride will cover over 380km through NSW’s far west regions. Along the route we will have the privilege of meeting some of the wonderful communities Royal Far West (RFW) proudly serves, and visiting regions that hold incredible significance in RFW’s history.
The ride will begin in Bourke, journeying to Cobar and Nyngan before finishing in Narromine on Saturday 17 May. We will also visit Dubbo as the meeting point before and after the ride legs.
The route:
Day one: Bourke to Cobar
Day two: Cobar to Nyngan
Day three: Nyngan to Narromine
Check out the full route here:
Day one
Day two
Day three
Up for the challenge but hesitant about the distance or elevation?
We're here every step of the way to make sure you have a fun, memorable and most importantly of all, a safe Ride.
Kent Williams from Entoure, our long-time Ride for Country Kids partner, shares more about how we will strategically and reactively adapt the route to suit riders in the three pelotons in our Ride Preparation page.
You'll have options on each of the three days of the Ride, meaning that anyone who wants to give the Outback Heritage Ride a go, can absolutely succeed.
Ride fees
Registration:
Registration for the 2025 Ride for Country Kids is $1,950 per rider. Your registration fee includes riders kit, all meals and accommodation (Wednesday 14 May – Saturday 17 May inclusive). Registration fees also include the provision of all logistics, safety and medical support.
Fundraising commitment:
The Ride is a great physical challenge and we ask our riders to not only go the distance to raise awareness, but to also raise vital funds. The minimum fundraising commitment for the 2025 Ride for Country Kids is $4,000 per rider. We'll help you along the way with fundraising resources and support.
Event sanctioning and insurance:
This event will be sanctioned by and insured through AusCycling. A condition of the event insurance and sanctioning is that all participants have valid AusCycling membership for the duration of the 2025 Ride for Country Kids. Monthly membership starts at $9 and all participants must provide their AusCycling membership number prior to the event on 14 May 2025.
Why ride?
Every Australian child deserves the right to access quality health, education and development services, but sadly country children and families face disadvantage of distance and a lack of available services. Currently, some children in regional and remote Australia are waiting up to six years to see a paediatrician or being told there are no services at all.
This coupled with compounding natural disasters such as bushfires and floods has seen the number of country kids in need of developmental and mental health services drastically increase.
In 2025, the Ride for Country Kids aims to raise $750,000 to connect country kids to the critical assessments, services and support they need.
We need your help to give these children the best start in life.
Our Ride story
Each year a growing number of cyclists join us to ride for the health and wellbeing of Australia's country kids.
Whether you're joining us for your ninth tour or your first, we're deeply grateful for your passion and commitment, and for the care you show country kids.
Here’s where we’ve been so far:
- 2024: Merimbula to Cobargo
- 2023: Cooma to Lake Hume Village
- 2022: Tamworth to Glen Innes
- 2021: Dubbo to Cobar
- 2019: Albury to Lake Cargelligo
- 2018: Lightning Ridge to Bourke
- 2017: Wagga Wagga to Orange
- 2016: Port Macquarie to Coffs Harbour
- 2015: Moree to Tamworth
- 2014: Dubbo to Wagga Wagga
