 Craig's Hut - Mt Stirling (above). Image Tourism Victoria. Victoria's high country (below). Image Tourism Victoria and cattle droving (bottom). Image Tourism Victoria.   |
Most Australians are familiar with Craig’s Hut – immortalised forever in the Man from Snowy River films. An Australian icon, the rustic hut is one of Victoria’s most picturesque and photographed huts, sitting atop Mt Stirling with a backdrop of mountains stretching seemingly forever.
Unlike Craig’s Hut however, which was constructed specifically for the movie, the historic huts that dot Victoria’s alpine region were primarily built by cattlemen to use as shelter when driving their herds up to the high plains in summer.
The area surrounding the high country was home to the legendary cattlemen celebrated by Australian bush poet Banjo Patterson in The Man from Snowy River.
Up in Banjo country you can still find the cattleman’s historic huts on the Bogong High Plains and Mt Buller, and in Corryong you can visit the final resting place of stockman Jack Riley, considered by many to be the inspiration behind Paterson’s hero.
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