Yackandandah Gorge Scenic Walk
Walking Trails · Yackandandah
The gorge at Yackandandah was dug as a tail race to sluice gravel and sand for gold, first by hand and later deepened with dynamite.
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Victoria · 3749
New in Yackandandah? Start here
Everything a new arrival actually asks in the first month, answered from the 148 businesses, clubs and places we list here. No sponsored entries, nothing paid for.
First, the thing people get wrong
Yackandandah is a National Trust classified goldmining town about twenty five minutes from Wodonga, with the whole of High Street protected. Totally Renewable Yackandandah has pushed the town towards community solar and battery projects, so local sparkies do a lot of rooftop and storage work. The Yackandandah Folk Festival in March fills every bed in town.
Yackandandah is in Victoria, postcode 3749, and 4 of the towns people here use day to day are in New South Wales. That is why this matters more in Yackandandah than it does most places: the state a job is done in decides which trade licence applies, which public holiday calendar sets the penalty rate, and which regulator hears a complaint.
If you are hiring anyone, the border check tells you which state's rules apply to an address, and the licence check opens the right register.
The shape of the place
Yackandandah runs on Wodonga for anything it does not have itself, and the drive is about 22 kilometres. These are the facts that decide who you ring and where you go, rather than the ones a tourism page leads with.
| State and postcode | Victoria, 3749 |
|---|---|
| Local council | Not recorded yet |
| Population | about 1,100 |
| Businesses based here | 14 across 8 categories |
| Businesses that travel in | 134 |
| Nearest larger centre | Wodonga, about 22km |
VICstate
3749postcode
14businesses based here
134that travel in
1club or group
1events coming up
What you will drive to Wodonga for
Nowhere this size has everything, and pretending otherwise wastes a trip. These are trades and services with nobody based in Yackandandah, where the nearest choice is the 22km into Wodonga.
What is actually based in Yackandandah
Not businesses that cover Yackandandah from somewhere else — these have an address here. For a small town this is the part worth knowing, because it is the difference between a trade you can walk to and one you wait a week for.
Join something. It is the fastest way in.
This is the honest answer to how you meet people in a regional town, and it is the section most directories do not have at all. 1 clubs and community groups cover Yackandandah, across 1 different kinds of thing. Most run a come and try night and most cost less than a month of streaming.
Where to eat and drink
Places with an address in Yackandandah rather than ones that deliver to it. Work through them rather than eating at the same place for a year.
Eat
- Bakeries 4
Pubs and clubs
- Distilleries 2
- Pubs 1
What there is to do
Including the free ones, which is what you want in the first month before you know whether you are staying.
Where locals actually post what is on
Half of what happens in Yackandandah never reaches a website. It goes on a council page or a community group and nowhere else. These 2 cover Yackandandah , and every URL was read off the organisation's own site rather than guessed from its name.
Local news
The Border Mail
The daily paper for Albury Wodonga and the border. Council decisions, court, sport and the closures nobody else reports.
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Tourism
Visit Albury Wodonga
The regional tourism page for both sides of the border. Events, markets, festivals and seasonal things to do across the corridor.
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Know a community group for Yackandandah that belongs here? Tell us and we will check it and add it. We do not add a page without opening it first.
What is on
Markets, open days and come and try nights. Free to submit if you run one.
27 Sept
Yackandandah Repair Cafe
Small appliances, bikes, clothing and furniture. Volunteers work with you, not for you, so you learn the fix. Free, donations welcome.
Yackandandah Public HallWhen something breaks
Trades with a yard or an office in Yackandandah. Every listing shows where its details came from and when they were last read.
Before you pay a deposit. Ask which licence they are working under
for your job and check it. It takes a minute on the
licence check, and on this border the
licence that counts is the one for the state the work is in, not the state the
business is registered in.
Moving to Yackandandah
What state is Yackandandah in?
Yackandandah is in Victoria, postcode 3749. That decides which trade licences apply to work done here, which public holiday calendar sets penalty rates, and which regulator handles a complaint. On this border those are three separate things worth knowing.
How do I meet people in Yackandandah?
Join something. We list 1 clubs and community groups covering Yackandandah, across 1 kinds of thing, and most of them run a come and try night. It is the single fastest way into a regional town and it costs almost nothing.
What is there to do in Yackandandah?
We list 2 things to do in and around Yackandandah, across walking trails, heritage sites and more. 1 of them are free.
Who do I call when something breaks?
We list 3 trades and services covering Yackandandah. Every listing shows where its details came from and when they were last read, and the licence check tool opens the right state register so you can check a number before you pay a deposit.
Is this page a paid guide?
No. Nothing on it is sponsored, nobody paid to appear, and ordering comes from how complete a listing is rather than from money. It is assembled from the same data as the rest of the site.
Somewhere to stay while you look
Worth the drive, across the border
- South Albury25km
- West Albury27km
- East Albury27km
- Albury27km