This year’s 35^th Lake Macquarie rogaine will be our 250^th official rogaine in NSW. The event also incorporates the 2026 NSW Rogaining Championships. Fittingly, this rogaine will feature a traditional 24-hour bush course, but it will also be supplemented by our ever-popular 6-hour and 15-in-24-hour options. Please note that you don’t need to be a ‘champion’ to enter this rogaine. Most of the map will incorporate the Olney and Watagan State Forests, only a 1hr 45min drive up the freeway from Sydney.

The course will feature a relatively level novice and family -friendly section that will dance through mature pines with an understory of wildflowers. There’ll be multitudes of tracks around the start location. You will see wallabies, wombats, bandicoots, and especially goannas everywhere. The longer event options will incorporate several awesome plummeting waterfalls, water junctions, gullies of towering blue gums and eucalypt forest, and deeply seated pockets of untouched remnant rainforest. You’ll be zigzagging areas of the Great North Walk.

There will be plenty of camping nearby on the Friday and Saturday nights (camping fees included in entry), and the easily accessible Hash House will have toilets and drinking water.

The entry fee covers dinner Saturday, breakfast and lunch Sunday, and of course the Lake Macquarie Tea and Damper! There will also be fun competitions on the side including guess the lollies in the jar and bonus points if you collect a specific trio of controls.

State Championships are awarded based on results in the 24 hour event only.

• To be eligible for a State Championship, your team must be entered in the 24 hour event.
• The 15-in-24 hour event is a separate, non-championship event. Regardless of scores or number of teams in a particular category, 15-in-24 hour teams are ineligible for the State Championships.
• Entrants in the 15-in-24 hour event out on course for longer than 15.5 hours will be disqualified and are unable to swap to the 24 hour event.