Best in Craft

Best in Craft

Unrivalled passion is on display as local craftsmen and artisans fine-tune their art. From smithing and smelting raw metals into masterpieces, carving new life into redgum or brewing and distilling top notch wines, beers and spirits. That’s just the beginning - get to know the artists here.

Food & Drink

Artists & Artisans
Alive in Nature

Alive in Nature

Landscapes along this journey are vast and varied. The river starts with a trickle in the mountains and carves cliffs through deserts, bushland and agricultural plains bringing an abundance of natural wildlife and water sports to life. Hard and fast or slow and steady, find your pace here.

Nature

Water-based activities

Agri-tourism & Produce

Passage of Time

Passage of Time

Road trips are all about the stories, the ones you’re about to make but also the ones already passed through the generations. The Murray is home to thousands of years of culture and plays a key part in the Australia you know today. No spoilers, it starts here.

Aboriginal Culture

History & Heritage
Lodgings

Best in Craft

Alive in Nature

Passage of Time

Historic paddlesteamer releasing a steam whistle while cruising the Murray River near Echuca and Moama

Passage of Time

Here it’s about the stories – the ones that are centuries old and the ones that are yet to come. Along the Murray River Road you’ll learn that life starts here with the flick of Ponde’s tail and gives birth to abundant wildlife, fertile plains that have fed generations and provided homes for people far and wide.

Stop by one of the many Aboriginal Cultural Centres or tour through ancient sacred sites like the ones at Mungo National Park and you’ll be seriously gobsmacked by this legendary history.

Not only are the waterways significant to Aboriginal people, they played a vital role in European settlement too. Historic sites are still in use today with ports and paddlesteamers, river barges, mills, blacksmiths and old school farming equipment ready to be explored on your Murray River Road adventure.

Hit the road with experiences that plunge you deep into Aboriginal culture and Dreaming stories. Or else, discover the tales featuring European settlers, bushrangers, horse thieves, drunks (no, not you), poets, singers (again, not you), aviators and loveable rogues. All in all, you have one heck of a drive ahead of you.

Young couple on the Wagirra Trail and Yindyamarra Sculpture Walk looking at Aboriginal art in Albury

Aboriginal Culture

Driving the Murray River Road you’ll soak in thousands of years of history and culture and learn just how significant the Murray and surrounding lands are to the world’s oldest civilization.

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