Yarrawonga

Yarrawonga is a town on the Murray River in the Shire of Moira, Victoria, on the border with New South Wales opposite Mulwala. It is situated on Lake Mulwala, an artificial lake created by the Yarrawonga Weir in 1939. The town is a major regional tourism centre known for water-based recreation, golf, fishing and Murray River foreshore reserves, serving as a gateway to the High Country and Riverina.

Visitors can expect a flat lakeside and river town centred on Lake Mulwala and the Murray River foreshore. The foreshore reserve offers beaches, jetties, boat ramps, walking and cycling paths, picnic areas and playgrounds. The town centre has shops, cafes, clubs and accommodation. Activities focus on boating, water skiing, fishing, swimming, golf and riverside walks, with views across the lake to Mulwala in New South Wales.

The area is on Yorta Yorta Country. Pastoral runs were established in the 1840s and the township of Yarrawonga was surveyed in 1868 as a Murray River crossing and service centre. The Yarrawonga Weir was completed in 1939 to regulate Murray River flows for irrigation, creating Lake Mulwala which transformed the town into a water recreation and tourism centre.

Yarrawonga is located on Yorta Yorta Country and retains cultural connections to the Murray River. The lake and river are central to local community life, recreation and tourism, with the twin towns of Yarrawonga and Mulwala sharing social and economic ties across the state border.