There are some easy and more challenging tracks in the Wombat State Forest. Went there day after new years and had lunch at Lake Daylesford, then drove to Blackwood through the forest, first going down Jubilee Lake Road (sealed) and onto Specimen Hill Road (unsealed) through the forest, then diverting left onto Cockatoo Creek Track (easy off road) and left again onto Cockatoo Track, bringing us to Wombat Creek Dam. Then headed south down Wombat Creek Road and onto Stewart Creek Road and then left at Leonards Hill Bullarto South Road (goes from unsealed to sealed) and right down Camp Road (unsealed heading South) until Blackwood Ridge Road which we turned left down. We felt like something more challenging so turned right up Schiltoe Track and this was certainly the most challenging off-road I'd done. We had to stop several times to assess the road conditions and depth/obstacles of water (I recommend going through those with a bit of momentum). We followed Schiltoe Track until it hit Paradise Track where we turned right and continued on to Paradise Road where we turned left and then left again up Green Hills Road when the two intersected. We followed Green Hills Road until it hit the main road, Greendale Trentham Road. We turned left up this and stopped in Blackwood at the pub for a cool down.
I'd recommend going with someone else and carrying some basic recovery gear if you're going to do more challenging tracks. Also, I picked up a twin pack of the GME TX665 1 watt handheld UHF radios for $99.99 from BCF so that we could communicate between vehicles. They worked brilliantly but you need to hold down the talk button for a few seconds before speaking to make sure the other vehicle gets the full message. These were good as neither of us had vehicle mounted UHF radios.

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