Local Attractions
Please find herewith some helpful tourist information for you to utilize in your planning to visit our beautiful area, this is only a ‘snippet’ of the things out there!
Seymour Info Centre
Old Court House, Emily Street, Seymour Phone: 57 990233
Follow the following link for information regarding the Seymour and the surrounding area www.seymour-victoria.com.au
Australian Army Tank Museum
World class display, including ‘Lighthorse Museum’ Phone: 57 357285
10 km west of Seymour, on the Puckapunyal Military Base
www.armytankmuseum.com.au
Old Post Office Seymour (Fine Art Gallery & Restaurant)
Emily Street, Seymour (opposite the Seymour Information Centre) Phone: 57923170
Open Wednesday - Saturday (day & evening) plus Sunday lunch.
www.artseymour.com.au
Tahbilk Wetlands Café & Reserve (pathways and boardwalks)
Wetlands cruises (weekends & public holidays) Phone: 93087111
Wetlands Cafe serving morning & afternoon tea, light lunches, with a nice view over the wetlands. Open 10 - 4 pm
Historic cellars established 1860 @ Nagambie. Monay - Friday 9am - 5 pm and Weekends & Public Holidays 10 - 4.30 pm
Seymour Railway Heritage Centre
Phone: 57990515
www.srhc.org.au
Tours of Royal cars and heritage fleet available, approx. 90 mins.
On Anzac Avenue, turn north at ‘Revolution Motors’ and keep driving you will then see the entry gate.
Generally Open 10 – 3 Sat, Sun, Tues & Thurs.
Goulburn River Caravan Park
Phone: 57921530
www.goulburnrivercp.com
Clean, neat and well maintained, located at Seymour
‘Horseshoe Lagoon’ and ‘State Flora & Fauna Reserve’ on the Goulburn River
Take the ‘Greenslopes Road’ at the Goulburn River Bridge, half way between us and Seymour. Traveling distance out the public ‘Greenslopes Road’ from the bridge to the lagoon and camping/fishing area with toilets and disabled access, is approximately 20 minutes drive along the beautiful ‘National Trust’ listed valley paralleling the Goulburn River.
N.B. (Please note this is a public road and destination available to all, please ignore any ‘mixed message’ signs along the way.)
The Shed at Trawool Restaurant & Cottages
Phone: 57991595
www.trawoolshed.com.au
Dinner Thurs, Friday & Saturday, Café open Thursday – Monday.
Trawool Valley Resort
Phone: 57921444
www.trawoolresort.com.au
King Parrot Valley Retreat & Banksia Gallery with ‘Bush Food’ Garden
www.kingparrotvalleychalets.com.au Phone 57970207
26-66 Wentworths Road, Strath Creek (off Fairview Road)
Open 10 – 4.30 pm - Weekends & Public Holidays or by appointment.
Strath Valley View B & B
1204 King Parrot Creek Road, Strath Creek
2 bedroom cedar cottage
www.strathvalleyview.com.au Phone 57849209
Tallarook State Forest
* Horan Track, Enniss Road, Fairview Road are three vehicular accesses into the Tallarooks
This massif rises 805m above sea level and is a hidden jewel providing all sorts of activitits, rock climbing, bush walking, camping, recreational four wheel driving, abseiling, orienteering, etc., or just for a scenic drive! Accessibility is good on well-graded forest roads, suitable for the family sedan.
Fairview Road off King Parrot Creek Road this access takes you into the forest from the east of the range you will quickly climb up past the Hidden Valley Vineyard, pause a little further on to take in the views! Once into the forest look for the road sign 'posts', these are placed vertically.
The East Falls Road takes you through the forest to the 'Warrigul (Dingo) Rock' on the left in a clearing is a bush camping area just prior to the Rock. The Rock is private land, however, to access the spectacular views at 600m (asl) proceed to the west of the barricades and walk a short distance (approx. 75m) to the adjacent viewing area as nature created it! Wow!
Falls Creek Reservoir from Fairview Road proceed north along East Falls Road for a short distance take Army Road to you left, then take the first branch on the right, note the R> on the tree. Take the next left this is the Falls Creek Reservoir Track (please note this track is closed from June long weekend until Melbourne Cup Weekend). This track descends into the beautiful mountain top gorge and takes you to the mountain top reservoir built in 1895. Camping, rock climbing, bush walking etc. The creek cascades from here to the valley below as a waterfall down the granite rocks above Trawool. (The Falls and Reservoir is also accessible from the Goulburn Valley Highway as a bush-walking tracks at Trawool, using Falls Creek Road).
Fairview Road continued, passsing East Falls Road continue on to a left hand intersection marked on a post as Mt Hickey Road if you follow this road you will be on Horan Track taking you south towards Murchison Spur this a spectacular drive down and along a spine, stop along the way and take in the views! (see Murchison Spur Road below).
Fairview Road (passing Mt Hickey Road/Horan Track) takes you onto 'Freeman's Camp', toilets, campsite (basic), the Fairview Road becomes Ennis Road in the wet. This road meanders along through the forest and eventually drops down into the Valley through spectacular rock formations, take in the vists, the road arrives at the Hume Freeway at Tallarook.
Murchison Spur Lookout
Take the Broadford/Flowerdale turn off from the Hume Freeway towards the hamlet of Strath Creek (half way between the Freeway and Strath Creek) the road will start to climb and you will come to the summit of the Murchison Spur, turn right and you will find the lookout over the ‘Valley of a Thousand Hills’ before you descend.
The Strath Creek Falls are a further 9 km along the Murchison Spur Road. Back onto the main road after your descent, you will then pass through Strath Creek and continue north to the intersection of the Goulburn Valley Highway (where you will then pick up the signs to the KMR).
Driving time from the Freeway to the KMR is approximately 20 minutes.
Yea Information Centre
Phone: 57972663
Located at the rear of Marmalades Café, 20 High Street
www.visitdindi.com.au
Yea Township & Wetlands
A lovely small rural town of approximately 1000 people, beautiful tree lined High Street, obtain some brochures from the Yea Info Centre and enjoy our area. The main walk track in the Yea Wetlands is named after John Franklin a native of the neighboring Nira Illum Bulluk clan and recognizes his contribution to Yea’s development and importantly, the District’s aboriginal culture heritage.
Interpretive signs along the route of the Franklin Track include a summary of key stories of how the Aborigines used and valued the natural assets of the Yea regions many waterways and wetlands. Just a short walk from High Street you can now lose yourself in the peace and tranquility of the natural bush and riverine floodplain wetlands.
Cheviot Tunnel
The historic Cheviot Rail Tunnel is a key feature of the Tallarook to Mansfield Rail Line which operated between 1883 and 1978. Being the only tunnel (201m or 660’ long) on this line and made using 675,000 handmade bricks using local clay, which remain in excellent condition today it has tremendous heritage values.
Located 10 minutes drive from Yea (take the road up the High Street, which would lead you in the direction of Mansfield, first road (2 km) on your right out of town is the Limestone Road, which will take you to the Cheviot Road and through the tunnel which is sign posted.
Historic Yea Station - Miller Street, Yea
The rail line from Tallarook to Yea opened on Friday 16th November, 1883 with the Yea Station being the terminus for 6 years. The brick station buildings at Yea were completed in 1890. Yea is 133km (83 miles) by rail from Melbourne and sits at an elevation of 172 m (565 feet). The line to Mansfield crossed the Yea River flats over a mile-long wooden trestle bridge before commencing a three-mile climb up an almost continuous 1:40 grade with many curves to the Cheviot Tunnel.
Wirrawilla Rainforest Walk
Discover the secrets of the rainforest on the Wirrawilla Walk. Wirrawilla is Koori for green trees. It reflects the luxuriance of the surrounding plants, like the majestic moss and fern covered Myrtle Beech trees towering overhead. The boardwalk is short and easy (20 minutes), beside the Sylvia Creek, with rest stops and wheelchair access.
Take the Toolangi/Healesville Road off the Melba Highway pass through the township of Toolangi and 6 km on you will come to the Sylvia Creek Road on your left.
Anyone traveling from the eastern side of Melbourne up the Melba Highway, must do this walk it a little ‘secret gem’ of Victoria that has never been logged or burnt.
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