
West Gippsland, Victoria
A river town under the tallest trees around.
Noojee sits in a fold of mountain ash forest where the Latrobe River runs cold and clear. Gold miners found it first, timber cutters built it, and two bushfires tried to take it back — the town just kept rebuilding around the one pub that wouldn’t burn. Ninety minutes from Melbourne, it’s still the kind of place where the trees get all the attention.
- 1900stown founded
- 102mtrestle bridge span
- 76mthe Ada Tree, roughly
- 90 minfrom Melbourne
Small town. Tall forest on its doorstep.
Timber, rail and gold all shaped the Noojee people know today, but the river and forests were here long before the mills — and they’re still what the valley runs on. One sawmill still turns logs into boards; the trout streams, the trestle bridge and the fern gullies are older than any of it, just bigger now than when the timber cutters found them. Fewer than a few hundred people call it home, under some of the tallest hardwood forest on earth. There’s a pub, a bistro, a restaurant, a café with its own general store, and a lot of country to walk off whatever you order.

Trails for every leg.

Find a table, find a room.

Meet the locals.
Postcards from the valley
Popular places in the valley
Make a day of it
RELAXED
A gentle loop
Waterwheel Walk, lunch in town, an afternoon under the Trestle Bridge.
FAMILY
Catch, cook, repeat
Land a trout at the Alpine Trout Farm, then a picnic and a short walk.
WATERFALLS
Chasing white water
Toorongo and Amphitheatre Falls, lunch in town, then the bridge at golden hour.
DEEP FOREST
Meet a giant
The Ada Tree, a wander through Loch Valley, and a night by the river.










