Curated list · Beechworth, VIC
Beechworth on foot, in one afternoon
By The LocalsKnow desk · last reviewed
Beechworth is compact enough that the whole thing is one walk, and almost all of it is on Ford Street and Camp Street. This is the loop in the order you would actually do it, starting at the historic precinct and ending somewhere with a drink. Forty minutes from Wodonga, an hour from Albury. Compiled from what each place publishes and last checked on the date below.
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Burke Museum and Beechworth Historic Precinct
Museums · Beechworth, VIC
101 Ford Street. Start here. The precinct is the reason the town looks the way it does, and doing it first makes sense of every honey coloured granite building you walk past afterwards.
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Beechworth Bakery
Bakeries · Beechworth, VIC
27 Camp Street. The original one. It is the busiest building in town and that is the point of stopping, not a reason to skip it.
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Beechworth Coffee Roasters
Coffee Roasters · Beechworth, VIC
6 Boiler House Lane. Off the main drag, which is exactly why it is the better coffee stop of the two.
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Ford Street Enoteca
Italian Restaurants · Beechworth, VIC
52 Ford Street. Italian, mid strip. The lunch option if the bakery queue has put you off.
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Tanswell's Hotel
Pubs · Beechworth, VIC
50 Ford Street. The corner pub, and the landmark everyone navigates by.
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Bridge Road Brewers
Breweries · Beechworth, VIC
42 Ford Street. In the old coach house behind Tanswell's. This is where the walk usually stops, and there is a reason it is hard to leave.
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Last St Brewery
Breweries · Beechworth, VIC
29 Last Street. The other brewery, a block off Ford Street, for anyone who wants to make a comparison of it.
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Provenance
Restaurants · Beechworth, VIC
86 Ford Street. Dinner, in an 1856 bank building. Book it before you leave home rather than after the third beer.
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Eldorado Road
Wineries · Beechworth, VIC
44 Ford Street. Cellar door in town, so you can taste Beechworth fruit without driving out to the vineyards.
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Lake Sambell
Swimming Spots · Beechworth, VIC
McConville Avenue. Ten minutes from Ford Street on foot and the easiest way to walk off the afternoon. Free.
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Woolshed Falls
Walking Trails · Beechworth, VIC
McFeeters Road. Five minutes out of town by car rather than on foot, but it is the thing people regret missing. Free.
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How this list was put together
The LocalsKnow desk ranked these by hand. Nobody paid to be on the list and nobody can pay to move up it. Where a position is arguable, the blurb says what tipped it. The ordering here is deliberately not the quality score used on the category pages, because a score cannot tell you which of two good operators to ring first.
The list is checked again every six months. If something has closed, changed hands or fallen off, tell us and it gets pulled at the next review rather than left sitting there.