Aberfeldy Backroad Tour - Woods Point to Jamieson is a Parks Victoria touring route in Victoria’s High Country, in Jamieson.
- 4WD · 55 km one way · 4+ hrs · Easy (Green Circle)
This drive is suitable for novice drivers in all-wheel drive and high range 4WDs. This route from Woods Point to Jamieson, with optional side trips, is dotted with the relics of settlements and mines built post the discovery of gold at Enochs Point in 1857. Settlements were quickly established at Gaffneys Creek, Woods Point, Kevington and Ten Mile. Woods Point was once a thriving township boasting 36 hotels, stores, business offices, police station, churches, medical centres, banks, post office and factories. The decrease in mining saw the population plummet from around 2000 to one or two hundred in the 1890s. The 1939 Black Friday fires destroyed the township, killing one person at each of…
Getting there
Commences from Woods Point heading northeast along the Mansfield-Woods Point Road.
Track closures nearby
Live from Vicmap. Closures change often — check Parks Victoria before you travel.
Nearby
- Jamieson Town · 206 m E
- Scots Mist Picnic area · 1.9 km S
- Quilton North Picnic area · 2.5 km S
- Doctors Creek Reserve Campground · 3.3 km S
- Burns Bridge Picnic area · 4.0 km S
- Williams Lookout Lookout · 4.0 km NW
- Upper Goulburn 4WD Tour Drive · 4.7 km S
- Skipworth Reserve Campground · 4.9 km S
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