Encompassing beautiful beaches, intimate villages, mountains and lakes, Gippsland sprawls across the south-east of Victoria. It’s home to snow-blanketed alpine towns and spectacular national parks and is renowned for its gourmet produce and wines.
Follow the Great Alpine Road through the Victorian High Country to the Gippsland Lakes and you’ll pass snow gums, alpine ash trees and button grass plains. Alternatively, you can hike one of the walking trails in Wilsons Promontory National Park, which boasts windswept dunes and wildlife-filled bushland on a peninsula jutting into the Bass Strait.
Gippsland is also a renowned foodie destination, full of charming towns where you can shop for artisan cheeses and bread or dine on free-range meats and locally-caught seafood at innovative restaurants. Sample cool-climate wines at one of the many cellar doors or taste the seasonal fruits at Gippsland’s road-side stalls.
Getting Around
Gippsland is around a one hours’ drive from Melbourne to the towns of Loch, Warragul and Drouin. Trains from Melbourne travel as far as Bairnsdale, with buses connecting to the Lakes Entrance.