THE 2025 Australian Easter Orienteering Carnival is coming to the Shire of Loddon, with four events, two at Tarnagulla, and one at each of Inglewood and Mt Egbert near Borung. 
This Easter event will attracts around 800 orienteers from Australia and overseas.
Organiser this week released event courses and said the Prologue (for elite competitors) and Family Teams Race competitions on Good Friday will be held at Tarnagulla in the Sandy Creek area. 
Elite races start at 12pm and family teams race competitors start from 1.30pm.
The carnival proper starts on Easter Saturday, with the event centre at the Inglewood Botanical Gardens.
Orienteers will follow a map known as Psalm Singing Gully for one of the old gold mining areas and will run through Mallee bushland.
Day two will be held at Mt Egbert Nature Conservation Reserve near Borung, one of the line of granitic hills running north-south through the Loddon area.  
The event centre is just outside the Wychitella Cemetery on Old Boort Road. 
Easter Monday will see orienteers return to Tarnagulla, with the event centre at the Soldiers’ Memorial Park. 
Participants will run through the spur gully terrain east of town with areas of reef mining. The map is known as Poverty Reef, named after the once rich gold reef in Tarnagulla. 
Three other events follow on Anzac Day weekend. On Friday, Victorian short races at Andersons Diggings near Dunolly; on Saturday, the Victorian Middle Distance Championships at Wehla Hill.
The final event on the Sunday will be the Victorian Long Distance Championships at Mt Korong.