The track starts from the midway clearing on Ben Lomond, going up through pines into native beech forest, then to a clearing overlooking the lake before continuing down into Fernhill.
Under Doc management, the Fernhill side became partly blocked by trees falling in winter.
The town side was cleared and maintained by individual riders.
Now that the Queenstown Lakes District Council had taken over the management of the track, club president Tom Hey said the club was considering options to save the area's only beech forest bike trail.
"They [council] don't have enough money to keep the maintenance up, so we are going to work on to make sure we keep it, as it's a fantastic area." The club would discuss the options when it met the council this week.
Mr Hey yesterday took a Doc archaeologist on a tour up a proposed mountain bike trail to Moke Lake, parallel to Moke Lake Rd and Seven Mile Creek.
The club is finalising the management agreement with Doc for the trail, part of which would use an overgrown gold-mining trail, opening up derelict huts and gold tailing piles alongside the creek.
Mr Hey hoped it would become part of a wider 75km network of cross-country trails proposed to link Queenstown's "scattered" trail network.
