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 About the region: The Western Districts region includes one of Victoria's most vital agricultural regions. It has an abundance of available arable land, secure surface water storages, large reserves of underground water, marginal forestry resources and a broad agriculture production base. The Grampians is a rugged mountain range takes its name from the towering series of mountains at the western end of Victoria's Great Dividing Range, serviced by the tourist centre of Halls Gap. Waterfalls, spectacular scenery, lush bushland and native wildlife are features of the Grampians National Park.
The coast of Western Victoria offers some of the most stunning coastal vistas in the country. The Great Ocean Road winds its way from Torquay to Warrnambool, giving access to the area's coastal attractions. The road begins on the Surf Coast, Victoria's premier surfing strip. It passes through the lush rainforests of Otway National Park before following The Shipwreck Coast.
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National Parks
Natural Attractions
Waterfalls
- Great Western: Fern Tree falls
- Hamilton: Wannon Falls; Nigretta Falls
- The Grampians: Information - MacKenzie Falls; Beehive Falls; Wannon Falls; Splitters Falls; Beehive Falls; Tiwinda Falls; Silverband Falls; Epacris Falls; Pansy Falls;n Kalymna Falls; Clematis Falls; Turret Falls; Broken Falls; Calectasia Falls; Honeycomb Falls
Wine regions
Historic Places
- Ararat: Gum San (Hill of Gold) Heritage Centre; historic buildings
- Camperdown: dry stone walls in the area built by early settlers from volcanic rocks; Camperdown Buggy Museum; historic buildings
- Cobden: Tandarook Homestead (1843)
- Colac: historic buildings
- Dimboola: Ebenezer Mission Station (1858); Aboriginal canoe trees
- Great Western: Langi Morgala Folk Museum, Buangor Hotel, Store and Cobb & Co staging station at nearby historic village of Buangor; restored cottages; historic tollgate; 'Shaft House', Great Western cellars (tours available)
- Mortlake: historic buildings
- Steiglitz: gold mining historic site
- Timboon: 100 year old railway trestle bridge, Curdies Siding
- Warracknabeal: historic buildings
- Winchelsea: historic buildings
Misc. Places of Interest
- Byaduk: Byaduk cave Aboriginal rock art
- Cavendish: Cave of Fishes Aboriginal rock shelter with paintings; Cultivation Creek Valley Aboriginal rock shelters and paintings; Cave of Hands Aboriginal occupation site
- Cobden: Bonlac milk processing plant
- Donald: a police camp recreated from heritage buildings
- Edenhope: a shoreline cairn in the grounds of the local high school marks the training ground used by the members of an Aboriginal cricket team to prepare for their gruelling tour of England in 1868.
- Gellibrand: Gellibrand Aboriginal axe grinding site
- Halls Gap: Wildlife Park and Zoo; Bambruk Aboriginal Living Cultural Centre; Aboriginal rock shelters with paintings
- Hamilton: Big Wool Bales; Grange Burn Weir; Hamilton & Western Districts Museum
- Harrow: Aboriginal Canoe Tree
- Horsham: Horsham Art Gallery, Longerenong Agricultural College
- Jeparit: Wimmera-Mallee Pioneer Museum
- Kaniva: The Big Windmill; Iris Farm; Fauna Park; Car Museum; Historical Museum
- Lake Bolac: Aboriginal fish traps and middens on the shores of Lake Bolac
- Stawell: Stawell Gift Hall of Fame Museum; historic buildings; Aboriginal rock art at Bunyil's Cave in Black Ranges; Jullukar Aboriginal quarries
- Terang: historic buildings - Thomson Memorial Church (1890); 'Mount Noorat' cottage and entrance gates (1873-76); 'Marilda Yallock' homestead complex (1854 onwards)
- Warracknabeal: Wheatlands Agricultural Museum
- Wickliffe: Baronga Aboriginal mounds and quarries
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