Discover Toodyay

Toodyay offers several ways to explore its history: the Living History Walking Trails focus on the town’s early settlement, while Connor’s Mill illustrates how wheat is processed into flour. There are also walking trails with historic attractions, an old church and recurring local events. When planning your trip, consider whether you’d prefer to spend most of your time outdoors, explore historical themes or include Toodyay in a longer self-drive journey.

Walking trails with a historical connection

The Living History Walking Trails take visitors through the town’s early settlement history. This makes them a good starting point if you’d like to get to know Toodyay through its past as well as its individual buildings. History is central to the trails, as their name suggests. If you’re travelling with children, you can take this focus into account when choosing activities and decide whether a history-themed walk suits your travel plans.

Pelham Reserve has 6 kilometres of walking trails with historic attractions. The route and its historic points of interest give the outing a clear focus: when planning, you can bear in mind that it combines walking trails and history.

The Bilya Walk Track is also mentioned as a way to explore Toodyay. This gives you several named options to consider when planning your trip: the Living History Walking Trails, the tracks in Pelham Reserve and the Bilya Walk Track.

Industrial history and historic buildings

Connor’s Mill was built for Daniel Connor in 1870 and is part of Toodyay’s early industrial history. Historic machinery shows visitors how wheat is processed into flour, and the exhibitions also feature several hands-on activities. This combines a close-up look at a specific processing stage with the history of the place. If you enjoy more than just reading about the past and would like to include engaging, hands-on exhibition elements in your visit, the mill is a natural focus when choosing what to see.

St Stephens Anglican Church is one of Toodyay’s oldest buildings. It was built by George Hasell in 1862. Its construction date makes it another point of connection with the town’s history, this time through a historic building. Together with Connor’s Mill and the trails featuring historic attractions, it offers different themes for a trip focused on Toodyay’s past, without limiting your visit to just one way of exploring it.

Local events and self-drive trips

Toodyay hosts the Moondyne Festival every year, and farmers’ markets are held monthly. These recurring events can help you decide how much importance to give local events in your travel plans. The festival and markets are different reasons to consider Toodyay as a destination. If a particular date matters to you, include it in your travel plans rather than assuming a specific event date from the annual or monthly schedule.

Toodyay is included in several self-drive routes, ranging from day trips to journeys of up to a week. The town is also part of the Avon Valley Loop and participates in the Avon Valley Motorcycle Friendly Region. This may appeal to travellers who want to visit Toodyay as part of a road trip. Depending on whether you’re planning a shorter outing or a longer journey, you can include the town in your route in different ways; no specific travel times or distances are implied.

When choosing a holiday rental in Toodyay, you can consider whether the town will be your destination or part of a self-drive trip.

More places to explore: Inglewood, Mount Helena, Kingston, Middle Swan, Dongara, Warmun, Yanchep, Northam.

For the broader travel overview: Western Australia.