Tawonga, Tawonga South and Mount Beauty are adjacent villages in the upper Kiewa River Valley in the Victorian High Country.
Understand
editTawonga is the original settlement, and Mount Beauty is a "model" town built as a construction village for the Kiewa Hydro-electric Scheme of the 1940s. Mount Beauty is separated from Tawonga South by the Kiewa River, and from the point of view of travellers Tawonga South and Mount Beauty are a contiguous small town.
Get in
editTawonga, Tawonga South, and Mount Beauty are a one-hour drive from Albury-Wodonga on the Kiewa Valley Highway. The road is a minor country highway and sealed.
The villages are 4 hours from Melbourne on the Hume Fwy (M31) to south of Wangaratta, Snow Road to near Myrtleford, and then Great Alpine Road to Running Creek before joining Kiewa Valley Highway.
Buses are available to Mount Beauty and then to Falls Creek:
- 1 Falls Creek Coaches, 233 Kiewa Valley Highway, Tawonga South (Ampol Service Station), ☏ +61 3 5754 4024, reservations@fallscreekcoachservice.com.au. Coach services to Mount Beauty and Falls Creek from Melbourne, Albury, Myrtleford, with overnight car parking.
Get around
editSee
edit- 1 Mount Bogong Lookout, Kiewa Valley Highway, Tawonga.
Do
editBuy
edit- 1 Bogong Ski Centre, 238 Kiewa Valley Highway, Tawonga South, ☏ +61 3 5754 4555, info@bogongskicentre.com.au. Ski hire, snow chain hire, and ski retail.
Eat
edit- 1 Treats Cafe, 238 Kiewa Valley Highway, Tawonga South (Inside Bogong Ski Centre), ☏ +61 3 5754 1515. Small casual cafe with cakes, drinks, and a lunch menu. A good place to fuel the family before the final drive to Falls Creek, or recover from motion sickness on the return.
Drink
edit- 1 Crank Handle Brewery, 211 Kiewa Valley Highway, Tawonga South.
Sleep
edit- 1 Bogong Moth Motel, 172 Kiewa Valley Highway, Tawonga South, ☏ +61 457 544 599. Check-in: 2PM, check-out: 10AM.
- 2 The Park, Mount Beauty, 222-224 Kiewa Valley Highway, Tawonga South, ☏ +61 3 5754 4396, info@theparkmountbeauty.com.au. Cabins, yurts, and powered and unpowered campsites. Campsites from $38 offpeak to $52 winter peak, cabins from $125 offpeak to $230 winter peak.
Stay healthy
edit- 1 Mount Beauty Hospital, 2-8 Hollonds Street, Mount Beauty, ☏ +61 3 5754 3500. 24/7. Provides urgent care, but does not have a fully equipped specialist emergency department.
- 2 Mt Beauty Medical Centre, 2D Tawonga Crescent, Mount Beauty, ☏ +61 3 5754 3400, enquiries@mbmc.com.au.
- 3 Mt Beauty Pharmacy, 11 Hollonds Street, Mount Beauty, ☏ +61 3 5754 4224, pharmacy@mountbeauty.com.au. M-F 9AM-5:30PM, Sa 9AM-noon, Su closed. Delivers medication to Falls Creek during snow season M-F.
Mount Beauty is the closest provider of medical services to Falls Creek outside of the snow season.
The nearest hospital emergency departments to Tawonga and Mount Beauty are in Wangaratta and Albury-Wodonga.
Connect
editGo next
editMount Beauty is the nearest town to the Falls Creek ski resort, which is 30 km away on Bogong High Plains Road, approximately a 45-minute drive. Mount Beauty is the usual location to hire snow chains, which must be carried on Bogong High Plains Road once leaving Mount Beauty in the winter. Parking at Falls Creek, either daily or overnight, should be booked in advance.