The Coliban Water Channels have walking tracks beside them which now have gates to be able to more easily access them. The gates are designed to keep motorbikes/dirt bikes out and if you’re wanting to ride your bicycle you may need to lift your bike. Some of the Elphinstone channel walks can be accessed from Diggers Way, near to where it meets the old Calder and the southern end of Wright Street, towards Taradale. 

The Coliban Main Channel was constructed in the late 1860s. It is an open gravity channel between Malmsbury and Bendigo and is approximately 70 kilometres long. The channel transfers water from the Malmsbury Reservoir to the Bendigo and Castlemaine Water Treatment Plants, which supply 14 towns in the region, and it also supplies irrigation water to rural water customers of Coliban Water. The channel consists of concrete sections and earthen or rock sections. The concrete sections are around 60 to 80 years old. (taken from Coliban Water website).