Leisure Activities

 The Peace…feel the tranquility that awaits you.
Close your eyes and feel…restored. Experience the splendours of North East Victoria - the healthy way.

Our temperate climate ensures Beechworth is the perfect holiday destination for everyone – four seasons of the year. In summer months, enjoy a refreshing swim at Lake Sambell and Little Fletcher Dam. For all year round activities there is fishing at Lake Kerferd and  Lake Sambell, where you can catch Red Fin, Yellow Belly or Rainbow Trout, or visit our eighteen-hole golf course with sand greens.

We have created an inexhaustible network of leisure activities. You can enjoy our breathtaking scenery, whilst absorbing the history. Our carefully preserved gardens, peaceful historic cemetery, lakeside walks, historic rail trail and mountain bike tracks provide an ideal  outdoor experience.

Pack a picnic, enjoy a BBQ or sit back and unwind as you experience the diversity of North East Victoria.

LAKE SAMBELL TO LAKE KERFERD
What a perfect way to gently unwind from city life! This walk meanders past old mining sites, set within a prolific array of tall gums; blue, white-barked brittle and peppermint; and continues past Patterson Dam, built to establish a water supply for mining.

This is the perfect region for touring. Why not organise your family and friends and discover more? Beechworth is a mountainbike riding area, which has been designed from the outset for the rider’s enjoyment. The Murray to the Mountains Rail Trail is Australia’s premier rail trail. This is a healthy, leisurely way to explore this unique region. Stop awhile and visit the farm gates, wineries and the charming country towns dotted along the trail; all offering a variety of accommodation.

LAKE SAMBELL TO LAKE KERFERD DETAILS
This 5 kms walk starts from the bridge over Spring Creek on Peach Drive, near Lake Sambell. It follows Spring Creek
and Hurdle Creek to Lake Kerferd. Be sure to stay on the walking track as many of the mine shafts are deep and potentially
dangerous.

MOUNTAINS RAIL  TRAIL
Mountains Rail Trail is a bitumen sealed bicycle trail following 98 kms of historic railway lines, from Wangaratta to Bright, via Mytleford, and connecting with Beechworth. Bring your own bike or hire one along the way. Visitors can fly into Albury from Melbourne and Sydney or catch the train to Wangaratta. www.railtrail.com.au

LA TROBE AT BEECHWORTH
These fine gardens are just what the doctor ordered! The gardens were started in the mid 19th century with the building of Mayday Hills Mental Hospital (formerly the Beechworth Lunatic Asylum) one of Victoria’s major country asylums. The gardens were developed over the next century and today there are over eleven magnificent hectacres of indigenous and exotic flora  with spectacular vistas for you to stroll through.

The historic Walking Tour, provides a tour of the former Beechworth Lunatic Asylum, and has fifteen interpretive storyboards located around the site for your interest. The plant tour through the gardens has examples of each species for you to discover. www.latrobeatbeechworth.com.au