Healesville is about 63 kilometres 39 miles north east of Melbourne. By car it takes about an hour to get to Healesville via the M3 tollway and the Maroondah Highway. V-Line trains also go to Lilydale with connecting buses to Healesville. There are many options for day tours and accommodation for longer stays. There are many Yarra Valley wineries lining the Maroondah Highway as it heads into Healesville, as well as in the hills and valleys around the town.
The enormous, curving rammed earth and concrete structure of TarraWarra is a particularly interesting venue close to town. The glass-sided winery is in the middle of a large warehouse where you can watch every step of the winemaking process while you taste their single vineyard wines, purchase local products at the provedore, and sit down to delicious dining in the restaurant.
Across the car park, Innocent Bystander offers tastings of more affordable wines as well as wood-fired pizzas. Walk around Healesville to discover some local gems. Pick up baked goods and coffee at Habituel bakery and roastery and head to Maroondah Reservoir Park for a picnic.
Learn fascinating facts from the wildlife rangers as you pat and pose with a wombat, step into waders to hand feed and tickle a platypus, and wander along the wallaby and kangaroo walk. You can also experience close up encounters with koalas, dingoes, emus, echidnas and even pythons.
Visit the tasting room of Four Pillars Distillery , located in a re-purposed timber yard in Healesville. Learn all about gin botanicals and the distilling process over a guided tasting of five neat gins. You can also enjoy a paddle of four gins served with Fever-Tree tonic or a terrific gin cocktail with a cheese board. Check out their award-winning Negroni marmalade made with oranges left over from the distilling process. Private distillery tastings are also offered to groups of nine or more.
Just down the road you'll find Alchemy Distillers , tucked in a laneway off the main street of town. The team have transformed an old bakery into a distillery, using grain to make their spirits. Pop in to taste their three core products - Chamomile Gin, Quinoa Vodka, and Moonshine - or enjoy a cocktail and some food in the cellar door or outdoor garden. We use cookies on this site to enhance your user experience.
Find out more. It had 31 rooms and a large stable complex of 23 stalls at the rear The columns are repeated on the second storey verandah where they are round in section. Either side of this double-storey verandah section are large rooms, with classical pediments and detailing on the upper facades, and large windows on the lower level. Two mature street oaks grow on the pavement at the front of the hotel.
The round trip departs every hour between The Hedgend Maze The Hedgend Maze is an 8ha fun park built around metres of pathways leading to a hedge maze with a treasure hunt, a rainbow maze, hole mini-golf, giant eye spy, giant checkers and laser strike kid's parties.
There are tea rooms and picnic and barbecue facilities. It is open daily from The weir itself gathers water from the protected catchment and relays it to Silvan Reservoir. The catchment area has been in use since the late 19th century and the first Badger Weir was constructed in There are three main walking trails through fern gullies and mature forests of mountain ash and manna gum.
Badger Creek runs parallel with the tracks. The walk to Badger Weir 1 km one way - an easy walk follows the course of the open-channel aqueduct. Maroondah Reservoir Park About 4 km north-east of Healesville, the Maroondah Reservoir Park features formal exotic gardens, native bushland, waterside walking trails, information boards, scenic views of the reservoir, picnic areas, water, toilets, camping facilities and barbecues. The park contains a number of short to medium walks including the ascent to the 41m dam wall which range from metres to 2.
The park contains rotundas, BBQs and picnic tables. It is open from 8. There are pleasant picnic areas at Fernshaw and Dom Dom. It also holds regular exhibitions. It is open Tuesday to Sunday, Wineries in the Yarra Valley In areas like the Yarra Valley district, where there are a number of cellar doors, it is best to refer to the specific knowledge of the wine experts.
It provides maps to each of the wineries and a hot link to their specific websites. It produces champagne but is not allowed to call its product "champagne" because of the French insistence that only wines from the Champagne region can give themselves such a name.
This track passed by a little to the north of the present site of Healesville. A few lodging houses, a blacksmith's and a mining warden's office were established at a settlement known as New Chum Creek.
Many Aborigines died from disease and maltreatment at this reservation. That year saw the opening of a post office in the town. A more substantial church building was erected in the early s in the town's main street for the use of all Protestant denominations.
They turned to farming, fruit-growing and hop-growing. It open 9. Print Healesville, VIC A pleasant town famous for the Healesville Sanctuary and the nearby Yarra Valley vineyards Healesville is a prosperous tourist centre - an easy daytrip from Melbourne - which is located close to the Yarra Valley which has some of Victoria's finest vineyards.
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The commercial centre of Healesville is situated along the shady tree-lined boulevard of Nicholson Street, which features a large selection of speciality shops, hotels, cafes, and a modern shopping complex built around a major supermarket.
Just north-east of town is the Maroondah Reservoir, which offers colourful gardens, BBQ and picnic areas, and path along the elevated dam wall provides panoramic views of the surrounding mountains. Four kilometres south of the town centre is the Healesville Sanctuary which first opened in and features an impressive collection of birds, mammals and reptiles.
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