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Make Tracks for Historic Accommodation Places to eat Heritage Tours The Crossing Motel Junee Motor Inn Fish and chips, freshly baked bread, a la carte Pastoralists first took up holdings around the 4 star accommodation 3.5 star accommodation and a cocktail, a pub meal or a latte and Junee area in 1845, but it was not until the 39 Seignior Street 61 Broadway Street fudge in the sun. You’ll find what you fancy railway arrived later in the century that the 02 6924 3255 02 6924 1266 for lunch and dinner at one of Junee’s town developed. By the end of 1886 Junee www.thecrossingmotel.com www.juneemotorinn.com.au many restaurants and cafes. For details was booming with six hotels and twelve Disabled unit available Pool and BBQ area visit tourism.junee.nsw.gov.au stores among its assortment of buildings. Fully licensed restaurant Central location The Junee Visitor Information Centre can Pool and BBQ area Free Austar Annual Events provide you with a the Heritage Walk WiFi access Wind in the Roundhouse Concert: brochure for a self-guided walk. Or we Belmore Manor Junee’s Wind in the Roundhouse concert, can arrange a guided heritage tour with Junee Tourist Park 30 Belmore Street organised by Junee Shire Arts Council, one of the local guides. 02 6924 4147 4 star accommodation is held every March in the famous 0405 264 854 2 Sunnyside Lane Railway Roundhouse. www.belmoremanor.com.au 02 6924 1316 Poker Run: This annual event raises Come and discover the rustic old www.juneecaravanpark.com.au money to assist local cancer patients and world charm of Belmore Manor. A/C ensuite cabins is held on the first Saturday in February. Relax in one of the beautiful and On-site vans www.juneepokerrun.org/jpr/ Bathurst 3.5 hrs character filled rooms. Grassy tent area Drive-through sites The Loftus Barbecue area Temora 45 min on Humphry’s Children’s playground Bed & Breakfast Pool Junee Sydney 5.5 hrs Pets allowed by arrangement 6 Humphrys Street Wagga Wagga 30 min wy 02 6924 1511 e H Hum 23 fully serviced rooms Historic Shirley Gundagai 45 min 3 function rooms Bed & Breakfast Fully licensed restaurant Bethungra Hume Hwy Canberra 3 hrs 02 6943 4431 Albury 2.5 hrs Junee Hotel Established in 1886 as a Cobb & Co station. Seignior Street Junee Visitor Information Centre 02 6924 1124 181 Lorne Street, Junee Pub style accommodation Phone: 02 6924 4682 [email protected] tourism.junee.nsw.gov.au Railway Square Monte Cristo Junee Licorice Broadway Museum Junee Roundhouse – Houlaghan’s Valley Wines This elegant square was designed and built Australia’s most famous haunted mansion, and Chocolate Factory home of the Junee & District Rail & Transport Museum Houlaghan’s Valley Wines has a cellar door in French Renaissance style in 1881. With Monte Cristo, looms over the town from This is no country town fudge shop! Great, Historical Society In a workshop built to maintain trains operating at the vineyard at Summer Hill its sweeping platform and beautiful cast its hilltop location. Step through the door glowing copper vats of chocolate will Housed in what was the old Broadway everything is BIG. The Junee Roundhouse Road, Junee Reefs. It is open Monday, iron verandahs, Junee’s Railway Square into Victorian times and experience the catch your eye on a very educational as Hotel, the museum provokes thought was once the largest railway roundhouse Tuesday, Friday and Saturday 10am to 8pm brings back to life the time when people comfortable home life of a well-heeled well as thoroughly addictive tour of the and interest in the history of the Shire in the southern hemisphere. Not only and Sunday 1pm to 8.30pm. Any other walked to the shops, strolled on Sundays grazier and his family in this beautifully Junee Licorice and Chocolate Factory. and sometimes a little of the humour has it survived, it is still a fully operational day phone ahead. Chardonnay, Shiraz & and journeyed by steam train. restored and sometimes spooky mansion. Inside this majestic old flour mill you will of the residents. Find photographs and repair and maintenance service station for Tempranillo wines are produced utilizing Monte Cristo is open daily from 10am learn the dark and rich secrets of licorice- documentation dealing with the rich engines and rolling stock. See trains old probiotics in the ground plus microbial to 4pm. Phone 02 6924 1637. making, pick up gourmet organic products heritage of a rural and railway past and and new, chat to volunteers and railbuffs activity in the soil. Enter Houlaghans Valley www.montecristo.com.au and enjoy a delicious repast in the sunny, present, the families and their pursuits or simply take in the space and scale of Wines on http://maps.google.com.au for garden courtyard. Open daily from 10am of business and sporting activities. this immense building. Monday to Friday travel directions or enter Lat. 34-40-37 to 4pm, tours and functions available. Phone 02 6924 1832. 12.00noon to 4.30pm, Saturday to Sunday Long. 147-35-58 into your GPS. Phone 02 6924 3574. & Public Holidays 09.30am to 4.30pm, Phone 02 6924 7265 email www.greengroveorganics.com.au Closed Good Friday and Christmas Day. [email protected] Phone 02 6924 2909. Attractions www.rhta-junee.org.au Gundagai Road Junee Golf Course Bethungra Kaybunda Lavender Fields Junee Junction Recreation Room to run Driving is a pleasure any time of the Forget everything you think you know Cootamundra Road provides interest and From ancient times lavender has been the & Aquatic Centre – parks and picnic spots year, with appealing short drives in every about country golf courses, and test your history with the Bethungra Rail Spiral, essence of tranquility and purity, so where Take a dip any time of the year at this • Memorial Park - toilets direction from Junee. Gundagai Road takes iron(s) on this challenging and attractive the only 360˚ spiral in Australia, and the better to relax than at a lavender farm? fabulous facility; heated pool, fully equipped • Broadway Gardens you through vineyards, pastoral lands, 18 hole, 72 par course. iseekgolf.com gives graceful old Hotel Shirley at Bethungra. Kaybunda Lavender Fields at Old Junee is gym, regular yoga, fitness and aquatic • Endeavour Park - toilets crops and beautiful natural landscapes, as Junee Golf Course a prestigious 4 ball open from the first weekend in September classes are all available to the casual visitor. • Bethungra Dam and Reserve it curves between the river and the rising rating and says it is “…a course that makes Junee Farmers’ Market to the second weekend in May, Thursday to The Junee Aquatic Centre is open every - toilets, camping, fishing, swimming hills. From here the road to Bethungra will you think about every shot…”. Open daily. Sample and purchase local gourmet tucker Monday. Open other days by appointment. day. Phone 02 6924 4680. • Sandy Beach Reserve, Wantabadgery lead you to the lovely little Mitta Church Phone 02 6924 3371. on the first Sunday of every month in the Phone 02 6924 2251. - toilets, camping, fishing, swimming and its historic graveyard. historic Railway Square. Phone: 0429 820 967.