Mount Buller

Victoria (Northeast Region)

Mount Buller (Ski Resort)

To reach MOUNT BULLER ALPINE VILLAGE, 48km from Mansfield, you ascend gradually upwards on Summit Road, a smooth, sealed road. With 7000 beds, 24 modern ski lifts and 80km of runs, it has the greatest capacity of any Australian ski resort. You can even ski at night on the Bourke Street run and there are cross country routes as well for those who enjoy nordic skiing.

Mt Buller is located just 230 km or about 3 hours from Melbourne, and as a result is very popular with Melbournites! It is so popular that Bourke St (the beginners area) is the busiest ski run in Australia. Buller is a large mountain with plenty for everyone and has the longest vertical drop in Victoria. Mt Buller also has the second largest lifting capacity in Australia (after Perisher Blue). To ensure good quality snow Mt Buller has installed extensive snow making facilities and is well prepared to help out mother nature.

An alpine village offers ski in ski out accommodation along with an ice rink to complete the alpine experience. A large range of lodging, restaurants, bars, in fact a large range of everything can be found at Mt. Buller!.

Mt Buller is working hard to promote themselves as a year round resort and so there are plenty of summer activities on offer such as horse riding, alpine walking, mountain biking, mountain safaris and of course the facilities of the Australian Alpine Institute.

Offseason

North Side

South Side

Mount Buller can be enjoyed at any season, in winter when the snow covers the mountain and decks the trees in white lace or in the spring and summer when the mountain is covered in delicately coloured wildflowers and grasses and you can look out over the expanse of the ranges beyond. Whenever you go, for whatever the reason, Mount Buller has everything to offer.

Mount Stirling

Mount Stirling, a few kilometres northeast, has more than 60km of maintained trails and is a good place for cross-country skiing. The only facility here is Mount Stirling Alpine Resort, a large complex at Telephone Box Junction, 9km from the turn-off left at Mirindah along Mount Stirling Road. As it’s a day resort, there’s no accommodation, but it has a visitor centre, a ski school, and rents out skis and mountain bikes. It also does tours from Mansfield of the Mount Stirling area. All roads beyond Telephone Box Junction are open only from the beginning of November until the beginning of June, weather permitting.

The fifty-kilometre Circuit Road from Telephone Box Junction circumnavigates Mount Stirling, and an access track from this road leads to Craig’s Hut, which was used as a film set for The Man from Snowy River. As sections of Circuit Road are very rough for 2WD vehicles even in good weather conditions, you’ll really need a 4WD for this route. In summer, Stirling Experience does 4WD tours to Craig’s Hut and other destinations around the Mount Buller–Mount Stirling area.

Facilities

The ABOM Hotel & Bistro, on Summit Road on Mount Buller, is the hub of the Alpine Village when it is open in winter. There are great views from here, and further up, on the summit of Mount Buller, there’s an even more spectacular panorama west to Lake Eildon, north to farmlands and east to Falls Creek and Mount Hotham. The huge Arlberg Hotel, 53 Summit Rd, provides entertainment in ski season, and has everything from fast food to an expensive restaurant.

In winter the budget-conscious can stay at the Mount Buller YHA Hostel, on The Avenue right in the centre of the Village (advance booking essential), which has self-catering facilities. The self-catering ABV Lodge has beds in bunk rooms and is open all year round.

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