Toolleen Hotel, TOOLLEEN, VIC

Located at one of the busiest intersections of the gold-rush era, where hopeful prospectors & their families travelling to Waranga goldfields from Bendigo and McIvor, met with traders & their horse-drawn drays travelling the famous stock routes between Melbourne and the Port of Echuca.

Today, located on the Northern Highway, set amid a highly productive agricultural valley where gold once lay hidden beneath the ground, Toolleen is serviced by the local store/post office and hotel, and is a southern gateway to the burgeoning northern extremity of the Heathcote Wine Region, and a starting point to travel the original route taken by the gold mining pioneers along the Gold & Ironbark Trail to Whroo and Rushworth.