The Top Family Activities and Playgrounds in the Yarriambiack Shire Region

The Yarriambiack Shire region is four hours drive north-west of Melbourne and includes the main town of Warracknabeal and smaller towns of Beulah, Hopetoun, Minyip, Murtoa, Patchewollock and Rupanyup.

A highlight of the region is the Yarriambiack Shire Silo Art Trail with spectacular artwork on silos in Brim, Patchewollock, Sheep Hills, Rupanyup, Lascelles and Rosebery.

Enjoy a picnic and walk at Lake Lascelles and Lake Marma. Up the outdoor experience at Wyperfeld National Park. The Snowdrift camping area is set alongside a huge white sand dune which provides a place for the fantastic experience of sand tobogganing.

For an unusual sight, take a peek inside the Murtoa Stick Shed or find The Big Mallee Fowl and imagine how big its eggs are.

A map of the region is:

Map boundaries Yarriambiack Shire

The best playground in this region is:

Flora and Fauna Park Playground, Warracknabeal

A playground structure under a huge shade sail with the highlights being a cute train with steering wheel and carriage plus a very tall wave slide and climbing wall. The rest of the play structure has a steep and high rigid frame ladder (to reach the high slide), hanging disks, steep chain bridge, steps, telescope, walkway, distorting mirror, smaller wave slide, steering wheel and disks on a vertical pole.

Also swings, bike springer, pelican springer and stand on spinner.

There is a big round shelter with seats on the perimeter, shelter with BBQs, unshaded tables and seats, wishing well (Make a wish that's pure and true and angels may send a wish to you), a field of mushrooms and Fauna Park. Located next to the river with a lovely grassy area and toilets.

The best skate parks in this region are

Murtoa Skatepark (Decent steel park with a lot of quarters, banks, rails, spine and ledge)

Warracknabeal Skatepark (Small concrete park with ramps at one end and two quarters and ramp at the other end. Fun box with rail in the centre)

There is another skate park at Hopetoun Skatepark (A concrete base with quarters at one end, ramps at the other end and a fun box with rail in the middle).

Reviews of all playgrounds, skate parks and BMX Tracks in the Yarriambiack Shire council region are here:

Family activities in the Yarriambiack Shire region include:

Beulah

Pioneer Park (The park is dedicated to Beulah District pioneers from 1883 - 1900 and has a hut with history panels, mural, water pump and bell)

Pioneer Park Beulah

Historical Murals (Murals depicting Beulah's heritage scatter the township, some sporting bollards and mural of horses by Kaffeine)

Beulah and District Public Swimming Pool (A main 30m pool with a spiral slide and a fenced grassy area with a toddler pool)

Hopetoun

Hopetoun Historical Mural (20m by 3.5m wall mural depicts many facets of Hopetoun's unique heritage such as drovers, wool bales, aborigines and native fauna, flora and bird life)

Lake Lascelles (Picnic and free camping facilities beside the lake)

Hopetoun Outdoor Swimming Pool (A 30m main pool and toddler pool)

Murtoa

Murtoa Stick Shed (Constructed in 1941 as a solution for grain storage during the World War II wheat glut, the mammoth construction has become a memorial to Aussie ingenuity. It gets it's name from the over 560 mountain ash unmilled poles or "sticks" up to 20m high that support the structure and create an impression of a vast indoor forest)

Murtoa Stick Shed

Water Tower Museum (Houses three floors of local artefacts and the famous James Hill taxidermy collection of over 500 birds, eggs and mammals which is over one hundred years old)

Murtoa Outdoor Swimming Pool (A main 30m pool, an intermediate pool with shade sails and a toddler pool)

Lake Marma Walk (A 2 km walking track around the lake, picnic areas and playground)

Patchewollock

Patchewollock Art Silos (A massive portrait of wheat and sheep farmer Nick Hulland by street artist Fintan Magee)

The Big Mallee Fowl (Sculpture of two big Mallee Fowls around a large mound nest)

Rupanyup

Rupanyup Art Silos (Striking portraits of two local residents painted by Russian street artist Julia Volchkova)

Rupanyup Community Swimming Pool (A 30m main pool and a toddler pool)

Warracknabeal

Flora and Fauna Park (Small collection of native birds and animals around a picnic area and playground)

Flora and Fauna Park, Warracknabeal

Yarriambiack Creek Walk (A 4km walk along the creek)

Warracknabeal Tourist Information Centre (Local advice and some information about Nick Cave who was born in Warracknabeal)

Historical Centre (Collection of all the items that make up the history of a typical Wimmera town)

The Log Lock Up (Explore the lock up which was built in 1872 when the first permanent policeman came to town and was used until 1960)

Federation Place Sculpture (Life size sculpture of six sheep and kelpie sheep dog to signify the role of the squatters in the early settlement of the Warracknabeal area plus some other sculptures in the town)

Wheatlands Agricultural Machinery Museum (Houses a large collection of historical machinery used in farming)

Warracknabeal Outdoor Swimming Pool (50m main solar heated pool with two water slides and a toddlers pool)

Other Locations

Yarriambiack Shire Silo Art Trail (Renowned artists have painted silos at six locations; Brim, Patchewollock, Sheep Hills, Rupanyup, Lascelles and Rosebery)

Brim Art Silos at Brim (Six disused, 30 metres high, silos at Brim have been transformed by Brisbane artist Guido van Helten into a massive mural depicting four iconic Australian characters)

Drovers Hut Gallery at Lascelles (Hosts some of Australia's best and quirkiest corrugated iron sculptures and rural inspired paintings)

Drovers Hut Gallery, Lascelles

Minyip Outdoor Swimming Pool (30m main pool and toddler pool)

Sheep Hills Art Silos (The mural which is spread across six massive grain silos in Sheep Hills was painted by international artist Adnate and is dedicated to Indigenous culture and knowledge)

Tempy Outdoor Swimming Pool (15m long outdoor pool with seasonal opening hours)

Woomelang Outdoor Swimming Pool (Outdoor pool with seasonal opening hours)

Wyperfeld National Park near Yaapeet (Big Desert country, Mallee scrub, floodplains and shifting sand dunes. Activities include walking, camping, day visits and four‐wheel driving)

Web Links

→ yarriambiack.vic.gov.au