Gundagai: historic bridges, museums and walks

Gundagai offers travellers interested in architecture, railway and transport history some tangible points of interest. Historic bridges, a railway station, memorials and museums sit alongside walking paths and a shared cycling path. When choosing a hotel stay, you can consider whether architectural history, collections or walks best match your travel interests.

Bridges, railways and memorials

The Prince Alfred Bridge near Gundagai is significant for aesthetic, historical, engineering and tourism reasons. Gundagai’s historic Railway Bridge and its timber viaduct in Murrumbidgee Flats are also still standing. Both structures reflect the town’s railway and engineering history.

At Gundagai Railway Station, displays recall the travel history of the time when trains regularly ran on the now-disused Cootamundra–Tumut line. A distinctive architectural feature is the only slate-roofed goods shed in New South Wales.

Anzac Park is home to several memorials to conflicts in which Australia has been involved. In Gundagai, the sculpture The Great Rescue of 1852 honours Wiradjuri heroes. The Three Sisters of Gundagai Mural depicts the story and development of Melba XV of Darbalara. The Old Gundagai Gaol complex includes cells where the bushrangers Captain Moonlite and Peisley were once imprisoned. A self-guided audio tour of the gaol is available daily from the Gundagai Visitor Information Centre.

Transport, collections and art

The Australian Road Transport Heritage Centre is a transport museum that preserves, maintains and displays vehicles and equipment from the history of Australian road transport. The exhibition also includes vehicles and equipment used on the Hume Highway and in the Gundagai region. This gives the centre a different focus from the railway station and its railway history.

The Australian Pen Museum has more than 3,000 objects, one of which is 4,000 years old. Rusconi’s Marble Masterpiece was assembled from more than 20,000 individual pieces of marble and is on display at the Gundagai Visitor Information Centre.

Walks and paths

The Gundagai Architectural Heritage Walk takes you past historic landmarks, is 2 km long, and starts and ends at the Gundagai Visitor Information Centre. The Main Street Heritage Walk takes just over an hour. These give you two different points of reference for planning: a distance and a duration.

The Gundagai River Walk is a paved, shared, car-free cycling path connecting North Gundagai and South Gundagai. It starts at Yarri Park and passes through native parkland along Morleys Creek. At the River Walk, you can fish with a rod for Murray cod, yellow belly or trout.

A destination north of Gundagai

The Dog on the Tucker Box Pioneer Monument precinct is 8 km north of Gundagai. It includes landscaped gardens, Australian animal sculptures and spacious picnic areas.

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For the main travel overview: New South Wales.