A service and administrative centre for a very prosperous dairy farming region, the inland town of Bega is situated in the heart of a rich and fertile valley where the Bega and Brogo Rivers and the Princes and Snowy Mountains Highways meet.

Where is it?: New South Wales: South Coast. Bega is 428 km south of Sydney via the Princes Highway.

Lookouts: Two kilometres north of the town, before the intersection of the Snowy Mountains and Princes Highways, is the Bega Valley Lookout. The Dr George Lookout lies 8 km to the north-east.

Things To See and Do


Housed in Bega's restored original cheese factory (1900), Bega Cheese Heritage Centre has interesting displays of old cheese-making techniques and an art gallery. It is open for inspections, cheese tasting and sales from 9.00 am - 5.00 pm every day. Bega Family Museum, housed in the former Family Hotel (c.1867) and contains memorabilia from the town's past, including furniture, crockery, silverware, wedding dresses, ball gowns, early farm machinery, glass plate negatives and many photographs. The building houses a cafe, store, gallery and visitor's information centre.

Yarranung, with its pioneer homestead and outbuildings dating from 1851, is located over the hill behind the cheese factory. It is now private property. Nearby is the Grevillea Winery, open daily for wine tasting and a meal in The Bails, a conversion of the 1860s 'Kirby' milking bails with slab walls and bark roof.

Surrrounding area


Biamanga National Park (15 km north) contains Mumbulla Mountain, an initiation site for young Aboriginal men, and Mumbulla Creek Waterfall and lagoon which was used by Aborigines to wash off ceremonial ochre. Mumbulla Creek Falls picnic area offers visitors to Biamanga National Park a place to picnic and enjoy the view from a lookout over a beautiful gorge and plunge pool.

Information boards on the cultural significance of the area are located along the raised wheelchair accessible boardwalk to the falls. There are free gas barbecues, picnic tables and toilet facilities. Enjoy the beauty of this place and the natural rock slide into a deep pool.