Mount
BEAUTY
ADVENTURE LIVES HERE!
Nestled in the heart of the Kiewa Valley, Mount Beauty is a destination that lives up to its name. With its stunning backdrop of Victoria's highest peak, Mount Bogong, this charming town offers a perfect escape for nature lovers and adventurers alike.
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Located in the heart of the Victorian High Country, Spring Spur Stay is your country home away from home.
Visit the working property, home of Bogong Horseback Adventures, any season of the year. Ride the mountain bred horses in their spectacular backyard. Stay with the Bogong Baird’s and share the experiences of everyday life combined with warm country hospitality.
Each beautifully appointed king ensuite room has a patio and stunning views across the horse paddocks or sunny north-facing windows. With a delicious farm breakfast included it is a perfect base from which to explore the High Country.
Spring Spur Stay’s ride and stay packages or clinics are available throughout the year. All rides include brilliant riding terrain on one of our good-natured Spring Spur bred Australian Stock horses. The rides travel the stock routes of the beautiful Kiewa Valley through river crossing into the scented peppermint and woollybutt forests of the Alpine National Park.
Check the website for dates for the short stay and clinic options.
The team’s aim is for everyone to improve their physical health through exploring the outdoors.
Explore the beautiful Kiewa Valley and surrounds while cycling through Victoria’s High Country with Rocky Valley Bikes and Snow Sports.
Challenge yourself in the Bike Hill Mountain Bike Park or on the new trails at Falls Creek on a mountain bike or climb the surrounding mountains on a road bike. If enjoying nature at a leisurely pace is more your style then explore the Kiewa Valley or Bogong High Plains on an electric bike.
Rocky Valley Bikes and Snow Sports has your cycling needs covered, with a variety of bikes for hire, including electric and dual suspension and a mechanic on duty. With nature at your door step, you will find an assortment of trails to ride and the scenery is breathtaking.
Welcome the New Year with an unforgettable experience. This Mount Bogong expedition features great landscapes, bush camps, spectacular riding terrain, great horses and local food and wine.
Journey onto the High Country via East Kiewa and Timms Spur taking in the stunning views across to Mount Bogong before descending down Track 107 into the heritage gold mining area below Mt Wills.
The second half of this tour climbs up the Long Spur track to a camp in the snowgums before traversing across Mount Bogong; the highest accessible horse riding landscape in Australia. The shore footed horses take us down Eskdale Spur and back to the home paddock at Spring Spur.
Join Bogong Horseback Adventures three day Packhorse Adventure and experience a truly Australian experience. Get a little saddle grease on your trouser seat this Labour day long weekend.
Travelling the High country with Packhorses provides a balance between our living heritage and modern adventures. This tour takes in Mount Fainter and Bogong Jacks Hideout. Its been made easy for the casual weekend rider or the beginner rider, by camping two nights at Bogong Jacks Hideout camp. On Sunday you ride out over Mount Fainter and unload the lunch pack at Tawonga huts.
After your billy boils and the cake washed down with billy tea it’s out into Pretty Valley for a few good canters, let the wind blow out the cob webs and stresses of your busy lives. Then it’s home ward over Big Hill and into the Kiewa valley where you can freshen up for your drive home, or stay the night and leave early on Tuesday morning.
Myee Alpine Retreat – boutique accommodation for the ultimate nature experience – a peaceful base for exploring the mountains, valleys, and pristine waters or laze by the seasonal salt water pool.
Myee, was a Bogong Moth woman in the Dreaming with beautiful coloured wings that lost her colours in winter to the alpine summer wildflowers.
Guests have accommodation options to suit their needs, including one queen bed room; eight family retreat rooms (with a queen, single and a trundle bed), three retreat rooms (queen and single bed); one self contained suite (king bed and double bed sofa) and a three bedroom house immaculately detailed to sleep 12 guests. Surrounded by nature – close enough to all modern facilities. Take a stroll around the beautiful gardens, and enjoy the indoor/outdoor entertaining areas. Guests will long for nothing.
Cocooned by the stunning Kiewa Valley in Tawonga South and immersed in the Alpine National Park you will enjoy uninterrupted views of Australia’s highest peak, Mt Bogong.
Myee guests will enjoy regional gourmet delights, including wineries, breweries, bake and tea houses. Guests will be encouraged to experience the best of what North East Victoria offers including the best mountain biking, road riding, hiking and snow activities.
Groups are a specialty with itineraries to meet specific needs. Myee offers unlimited Wi-Fi access, complimentary onsite car parking and 24-hour tour desk.
Horsemanship clinic in a spectacular classroom, beyond the yard and stable. Advance your horse and rider relationship in a working environment. Great horses, beautiful camps, brumby country, experienced leaders.
This five day travelling clinic combines the rewards of a remote packhorse expedition with the the extra dimension of horsemanship skill building in a working environment. The experienced horse masters offer ongoing advice and ideas throughout the expedition.
Although all BHA rides include basic Natural Horsemanship, these clinics are an opportunity to focus on horsemanship, observe brumbies in there natural wild herd environment, learn the traditions of using packhorses, bush skills, camping with horses and problem solving the challenges of horses in remote landscapes.
On these expeditions there is an opportunity to bring your horse or use one of BHA’s own bred and trained mountain horses. Offering one on one mentoring, the Natural Horsemanship mobile clinics will be run this year by Lin and Clay Baird.