Dinner Plain

Dinner Plain is an alpine village on the Great Alpine Road in the Victorian Alps within Alpine Shire, Victoria, about 13 kilometres from Mount Hotham. At 1,570 metres elevation, it is Australia's highest freehold village and is known for distinctive huts with rounded snow-shedding roofs. Surrounded by Alpine National Park, it operates as a year-round resort offering snow sports in winter and hiking and mountain biking in summer.

Visitors can expect a small, low-rise alpine village set on high-country plains surrounded by snow gums and Alpine National Park. The village centre has timber huts with characteristic curved roofs, lodges, cafes, a general store and galleries. In winter streets and trails are snow-covered for skiing and snow play; in summer the same trails become walking and mountain biking tracks with wildflowers and open grassy plains. Visitors can explore hut heritage, scenic lookouts and easy village walks.

The area has a long history as high-country grazing land used by alpine cattlemen, with the original Dinner Plain Hut dating to the 19th century. The modern village was planned and developed from the mid-1980s by the Alpine Resorts Commission as a purpose-built alpine resort village, with architecture inspired by cattlemen's huts and designed for heavy snow loads.

Dinner Plain reflects Victorian high-country cattlemen heritage and alpine hut building traditions. It is located on Country traditionally associated with Gunaikurnai and Dhudhuroa peoples and today functions as a community and tourism hub celebrating alpine lifestyle, art and mountain culture.