• The Mountains in Autumn
  • The Mountains in Autumn
  • The Mountains in Autumn
  • The Mountains in Autumn
  • The Mountains in Autumn

The National Trust Way to The Mountains in Autumn

8 day tour departing and returning to Sydney

From the Snowy Mountains of NSW, across the border into the Victorian Alps, back through the NSW Western Slopes beyond the Blue Mountains, the colours of this country are at their spectacular best in Autumn. This 8 day Autumn tour passes through Adaminaby, Khancoban, Jindabyne, Omeo, Bright, Mt Beauty and Yacandandah to name a few. The route includes the Snowy Mountains Highway, the Alpine Way, the Monaro Highway, The Great Alpine Road and the Olympic Way. It reaches to the Victorian coast at Lakes Entrance. It includes the ski resorts of Thredbo, Dinner Plains, Mt Hotham and Falls Creek. Apart from the Autumn colours of the valleys; the route includes Australia’s most spectacular mountain scenery.

Southern Alps - Click to Enlarge

The Mountains in Autumn Photo Gallery

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  • ‘Snowy Mountains resident wallaby’
  • Adaminaby township
  • Adaminaby stone church
  • Lake Eucumbene
  • Kiandra High Plains
  • Mist over Mt Selwyn Lake
  • Ogilvie’s Creek, Cabramurra
  • The Alpine Way – Geehi Walls
  • Khancoban in Autumn
  • Grape vines – Thredbo Valley
  • Old Bank – Bombala
  • ‘Tom Groggin’ – Alpine Way
  • Murray 1 Power Station – Snowy Mountains Scheme
  • Alpine Way near Jindabyne
  • Omeo village – Great Alpine Road
  • Omeo valley
  • Omeo Post Office
  • Victorian Alps - From the summit of Mt Hotham
  • Dinner Plains Village – Victorian Alps
  • Red Robbin – Mt Buffalo Victoria
  • Mt Buffalo precipice
  • Bright
  • Bright – Christmas all year round
  • Mountain Ash after fire – Falls Creek Victoria
  • Rocky Valley Reservoir – Bogong High Plain
  • Lochart Café tables – circa 1950s
  • Bethungra rail cutting – Olympic Way
  • Memorial to the Chinese – Lambing Flat, Young NSW
  • Autumn Poplars – Tarana scenery

About the Journey

This is a journey following the wonderful colours of Autumn through the alpine regions of southern NSW and Victoria. Through the Snowy Mountains in NSW including places such as Adaminaby, Khancoban, Jindabyne, Dalgety and Bombala; to the Victorian Alps and Bright (two nights in this town), Omeo, Yacandandah and Mt Beauty. Down to the Victorian coast at Lakes Entrance to dine in a floating restaurant. The surprising pretty villages of Dinner Plains and Wandiligong. To find the Autumn colours we traverse the highest mountain regions of Australia. Crossing the Kiandra and Bogong High Plains we visit the ski villages of Thredbo (where we spend a night), Mt Buffalo, Mt Hotham and Falls Creek. In this high country we find the most spectacular of all mountain scenery on this continent.

Some of the highlights

The scene from the summit of Mt Hotham is the most expansive mountain view from any road in Australia; the precipices of Mt Buffalo and the Ovens Valley below, the avenues of colour that line every Autumn view of Bright, the skeletons of Mountain Ash forests devastated by fire in so much of the Victorian Alps; views of the western escarpment of the ‘Main Range below Mt Kosciusko. Along the Geehi Walls. Khancoban, and so many other valley towns in Autumn. The ‘verandah town’ of Lockhart to the west of Albury and finally Autumn colours in the undulating Western Slopes through Cowra and Blayney across to the edge of the Blue Mountains on the way home.