Discover Alma: Mining, Bushland and Motorsport

Alma offers several points of interest for a trip focused on mining history, bushland or motorsport. These include the Moonlight Gully Dredge Dam, Tipperary Hill, the Seaham Mine Bushland Reserve and the Maryborough Motorcycle Club. These different themes can help you decide whether Alma is one of the places you want to consider more closely when planning your trip.

Mining history and historic sites

The Moonlight Gully Dredge Dam on Alma-Moonlight Road in Alma is a Heritage Inventory Site. Tipperary Hill (riot site) is on Maryborough–St Arnaud Road in Alma. The names themselves offer two distinct points of interest if you are interested in historic sites: the dam, listed as a Heritage Inventory Site, and Tipperary Hill, whose name includes the designation “riot site”.

The Seaham Mine Bushland Reserve is also part of the town’s mining history. The Seaham Company operated successfully as a mining company there from 1869. This ties the mining history to a specific place and time. Nearby, in Bowenvale, is the Alma Lead Cyanide Works, a historic mining and cyanide-processing site. The site includes rows of cyanide vats, several dams, disused shaft remains and mullock heaps. If you want to include mining history in your trip, you can distinguish between the sites associated with Alma and the site in Bowenvale.

Bushland and a track through the reserve

The Seaham Mine Bushland Reserve in Alma is an area of bushland. A track runs through the entire reserve. When planning your day, this offers a different kind of experience from the historic mining connections: you can consider the reserve as a nature-focused attraction while also noting that a track runs through it. No information is provided here about the length or route of individual sections, so do not plan around a specific walking distance. You can consider the reserve as an interest in its own right alongside the historic sites, without combining mining history and bushland into a single offering.

Motorsport and the self-drive route

The Alma Recreation Reserve is home to the Maryborough Motorcycle Club. The club was originally founded before the Second World War, and its track at the Alma Recreation Reserve welcomes visitors. This makes motorsport another specific point of interest during your stay. The club’s historical founding period and the track’s current welcome to visitors are separate pieces of information: the first describes the club’s history, while the second concerns visitors welcomed at the track.

Alma is also directly connected to a drive through the Central Goldfields region: Self-Drive Route 3 through the region includes the town. If you are planning a road trip, you can therefore include Alma as part of this route. Together with the mining sites, bushland and motorsport, this gives you a range of themes to help guide your decision about visiting Alma.

Choose Alma as a destination

When looking for a holiday rental in Alma, you can weigh up which interests matter most for your trip.

More places to discover: Merrigum, Carrum Downs, Lake Bolac, Serviceton, Murray-Sunset, Beverford, Gowanbrae and Coghills Creek.

For the broader travel overview: Victoria.