Little Murray Weir Rd Explore Nyah/NyahLittle Murray Weir Rd West Region To Robinvale & Mildura LEGEND Tour Route B4OO Statewide Route Number To Balranald Vic & Sydney Highway Accredited Visitor Information Centre TOOLEYBUC Sealed Road Other Reserves & Public Land B12 MALLEE HWY MURRA Unsealed Road Lake LAKE Y COOMAROOP Railway Line Intermittent Lake To Manangatang K oraleigh Winery 7 Nyah-Vinifera Park Track 2 & Adelaide PIANGIL MALLEE HWY Pheasant Farm 8 First Rice Grown in Australian B12 L Winery ucas Lane ucas RV Park 9 Harvey’s Tank Road Mur Ferry 10 Nyah West Park V ALLEY ra 1 11 y The Flume Wire Sculptures Park The Flume 2 Wood Wood 12 The Memorial Gate 1 Gillicks B4OO Reserve NSW 3 The Ring Tree 13 Nyah Primary School WOOD WOOD 4 Nyah-Vinifera Park Track 1 14 Pioneers Cairn The Ring Tree 3 5 Nyah Township 15 Nyah’s First Irrigation Scheme 2 K oraleigh Riv 6 Nyah West Township 16 Scarred Tree er 16 HIGHW Pearse Lak Pearse Scarred Rd Tree A Nyah-Vinifera Picks Y Park Cant Rd Point Nyah-Vinifera 4 LAKE e Rd e Park Track 1 GOONIMUR Vic Byrnes La LAKE KORALEIGH WOLLARE 5 RV Park 1st Irrigation Yarraby Rd NYAH Speewa Rd 6 8 ray NYAH 7 Mur N WEST Nyah-Vinifera First Speewa Park Track 2 Rice Grown Creek Nyah-Vinifera Speewa VINIFERA Park Riv SPEEWA Forrest Rd W E er ISLAND B4OO MURRA W Y Ferry oorinen-Vinif F erry Pira Rd Pira BEVERIDGE SPEEWA ISLAND S TYNTYNDER Rd era Rd Mur ra BEVERFORD y To Chillingollah V PIRA ALLEY NSW Chillingollah Rd Riv Pheasant TYNTYNDER er Farm WOORINEN SOUTH Nowie Road NORTH 9 LAKE Harvey’s MURRAYDALE Tank WOORINEN MURRA SOUTH W HOLLAWAYS oorinen LAKE B4OO HIGHW Y Mur V ALLEY Nyah ra Cemetery y Nyah West A HWY RV Y Golf Course Park 9 NSW 12 Rd Memorial Gate Riv er YARRABY RD RIVER ST RIVER RIVER ST RIVER Cairn 14 ST RIVER To Moulamein A RD Vic & Sydney School 13 SPEEW SWAN KINGHORN LN CHURCH ST Mur HILL Moulamein Rd ROSS RD NYAH ra RIVER RD RIVER MURRAY DOWNS y McCallum St e-Swan Hill Rd Vic e Sealak 10 11 Irrigation Scheme 15 o Sealak Riv T Park Sculptures er MONASH AVE CHINKAPOOK NYAH WEST RD BODINNAR RD ST A TION ST RIVER RD DONALD ST NYAH WEST INSERT To Bendigo & Melbourne 02/11/2017 visitswanhill.com.au Nyah/Nyah West Region visitswanhill.com.au Nyah/Nyah West Region Start from the clock tower, Cnr Campbell and McCallum Streets. This drive takes you through the Swan Hill region’s central area where you can share in our history, heritage, forest and farmland interests. It’s 170km however you can access the Murray Valley Highway at many points to return to Swan Hill from Piangil, it’s not much further to cross into NSW to return via Tooleybuc, the Ring Tree, Koraleigh and Nyah or cross the Murray an old fashioned way, on a ferry at Speewa. Andrew Peace Wines 7 Nyah-Vinifera Park Track 2 (dry weather track only) One of Australia's largest family owned wineries, located on the Travel along Takasuka’s Levee Bank built with horses and Murray River in Piangil. scoops to control floodwaters from Gunbower Creek during his rice growing trials. This 7km track takes you through the forest, Olson's Pheasant Farm beside the river, passing small middens where Aboriginal Olson Game Birds have been producing top quality free range people camped and fished above the floodwaters. As you cross Pheasant, Guinea Fowl and Partridge for restaurants and food a small earthen bridge over Gunbower Creek, about 500m from the forest exit, you are near where it flows out of the Murray outlets throughout Australia for almost 50 years. This unique River and became the site of; Nyah’s First Irrigation Scheme combination of commercial enterprise and tourist operation is a 1901-1904. This track is not maintained by the Swan Hill Rural year round attraction for many local and overseas visitors. City Council and may be subject to erosion, fallen trees and other obstacles, proceed with care and at your own risk. Nyah Free RV Riverside Camping Located on the Murray River adjacent to the football oval. Over 8 First Rice Grown in Australia 100 campsites, dump site and potable water. Swimming, fishing, In 1905 Joe Takasuka and family arrived from Japan and began boating and bushwalking. Stay limited to seven days. Please experimenting with different rice varieties, finally succeeding leave a donation in the donation box. The Lions Club maintains with rice suitable for Australian conditions. See full story on this camping area. memorials at “The Japs” as this area was locally known. Speewa Ferry 9 Harvey’s Tank Cross the Murray River in style on the famous Speewa Punt, one Harvey’s Tank is one of many natural Mallee soaks where for of the last remaining punts in operation along this section of the centuries Aboriginal people obtained fresh water in otherwise river. (The Speewa Ferry is a free service.) waterless country by digging deeper into the usually clay soils. 1 It was deepened during the 1893 drought. To control The Flume evaporation, a brush roof was built over it, later replaced with As seen from the road, it’s a “channel on legs” over private land corrugated iron. The Bushland Reserve opposite contains (in preference to a longer route on contour lines around sand native flora. hills). Built by the Water Commission (1914-1917) of corrugated 10 iron, this was replaced in 1930 with corrugated asbestos. It Nyah West Park supplied stock and domestic water to farms, but today it is a piped A great place to stop, toilet facilities, children’s playground, supply. barbecue and a massive red gum. 2 Wood Wood 11 Wire Sculpture Park The general store and post office was once called a Wine Shade! Created by retired farmer Jim Watson, these unique artistic The 80-acre Mallee Flora Reserve at the back of the caravan park features are a must to see while in the township of Nyah West. has much of floral interest, as well as a picnic table, and regional Jim has been able to transform rustic old wire into living information board. breathing amazing artistic sculptures. 3 The Ring Tree 12 The Memorial Gate A remnant of pre-colonial days, the tree is a rare example of an Erected in 1927, these Gates list the names and commemorate Aboriginal boundary or river crossing marker. Ring trees are local men who made the Supreme Sacrifice in WW1 and Ww2. normally formed by binding branches together to form the shape of a ring. It is believed that this tree marked the direction of a safe 13 Nyah Primary School river crossing which was used by local tribes and drovers to cross From 1913-1996 the Nyah Primary School was here. On the between NSW and Vic. east side of the school ground several large old trees mark the probable site of an Aboriginal Burial Ground. 4 Nyah-Vinifera Park Track 1 (dry weather track only) 14 Start at the Boat Ramp or from Byrnes Lane 1km along the Pioneers Cairn Murray Valley Highway. About 6km along find Pick’s Point and Erected in 1930. Honours explorers, Major Mitchell and Captain sand bar, fenced middens, walking tracks and many ideal Sturt 1836. The Overlanders, Hawden and Bonney 1838 who all camping and fishing spots. This track is not maintained by the travelled through here. Swan Hill Rural City Council and may be subject to erosion, fallen 15 trees and other obstacles, proceed with care and at your own risk. Nyah’s First Irrigation Scheme 1901-1904 5 In 1899 Jim Thwaites and Andrew Heath obtained an official Nyah Township license and develop the first irrigation system for the region. The township of Nyah, on the banks of the Murray River was This irrigations system included a 70 foot deep shaft which formed as the "Taverner Community Village Settlement" in the pumped water into a concrete basin, from where it flowed to 1890s and has a population today of approximately 490. each of their blocks. The concrete basin is still there, with information that tells the story of this early event. 6 Nyah West – A Heritage Town 16 Scarred Tree Nyah West was established when the railway line was extended from Swan Hill to Piangil in 1915 and has a population today of The scar on this tree was created when Aboriginal people around 690 people. The main street landscape is heritage listed removed bark. Bark was used to make canoes, shelters, food and has been awarded the ‘Most Intact Streetscape’ by the and water containers, baby carriers and other items. National Trust..