25 great drives across North East Victoria
and the Southern Riverina

FROM the mountains, to the Murray, to the Murrumbidgee, we've got the best of the region's great touring roads covered.

Thousands of kilometres of interesting roads crisscross North East Victoria and the Southern Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia's premier inland playground.

It has all the essential ingredients for the perfect road trip - stunning, ever-changing scenery, incredible attractions, welcoming cities, towns, and villages, and great, uncrowded, driving roads.

So, what are you waiting for? Fill your tank and start exploring - Darryl Starr

Great Alpine Road

THE Great Alpine Road should be on everyone's bucket list to drive. It is one of the best (we reckon it is the best) driver's roads in the country, connecting the city of Wangaratta in North East Victoria, to Bairnsdale on the Gippsland coast. We tell you why, and what you will see along the way - Photo: Gavin Hansford, Visit Victoria

Great River Road

The link roads

Testing the test loop

AS its name implies, the Great River Road follows the Murray River upstream from Albury-Wodonga to the Man from Snowy River country 

THESE short to medium roads are the drives you never knew you needed - until now. Try one and you will want more

THIS local 'test' drive is one we recommend you drive at least once – or three or four times – as you can do it easily in a day. And it's fun!

Snowy Valleys Way

NOT well know but well worth the drive, especially if you are looking for an alternative to the boring Hume Freeway. The Snowy Valleys Way is one of the country's most scenic touring routes. It passes through historic towns and villages, skirts the Victorian High Country and the Snowy Mountains, and visits Kelly Country and the Dog on the Tuckerbox. 

Bill's bits & pieces

MOTORING journalist Bill Buys takes a light-hearted look at a sometimes crazy world of motoring - and other strange and wonderful stuff from around the world, nationally, state wide, and even right here in North East Victoria and the Southern Riverina region of New South Wales . . . more