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Craig's Hut, Mount Stirling

Australia Victoria Mansfield

Craig's Hut, Mount Stirling
Photo: Bahnfrend, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A rustic mountain cattlemen's hut on a high ridge of the Victorian Alps, built as a film set for the 1983 movie The Man from Snowy River and rebuilt after bushfires. Its setting, with views across the Alpine National Park and the Howitt High Plains, captures the spirit of the High Country.


It's reached by an unsealed road from Mansfield via Mount Buller and Mount Stirling, with a short walk from the car park; the last part is 4WD only, or walk 1.4 km. The road is closed in winter when snow covers the High Country. The area is popular for 4WD touring, horse riding, camping and trout fishing in remote streams.

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