Welcome to Wangaratta

With its broad main street, historic buildings and riverside parklands, Wangaratta offers all the services of a bustling rural city with the warm welcome of a traditional country town.

Its hospitality and range of events and attractions make Wangaratta a popular cosmopolitan city - a short drive in any direction will lead you to world-class wineries, gourmet food, spectacular scenery and historic towns.

Local residents enjoy the city’s many memorable festivals and events. The three-day multi-award winning Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues, held annually in hotels, concert venues and nearby wineries, features a world-class line-up and is one of the biggest jazz events in Australia.

Locals also enjoy the surrounding touring routes. You can cycle or walk a section of the Murray to the Mountains Rail Trail, or take a scenic tour along the Great Alpine Road - which extends from Wangaratta across the Alps all the way to Bairnsdale and the Gippsland Lakes.

The Warby Range State Park is located 10 km west of Wangaratta. It is characterised by waterfalls, forest and woodlands, extensive areas of spring-time wildflowers and blackboys. There are excellent views across to the Victorian Alps, and the extensive range of wildlife includes black wallabies, echidnas, wedge-tailed eagles, lorikeets, barking owls and sugar gliders. In the north, The Killawarra State Forest differs in its landscape and vegetation types and is populated by swamp wallabies, echidnas and bats.

(text courtesy of www.liveinvictoria.vic.gov.au).