Travel Guide Corryong

Corryong is Victoria's last town on the road to New South Wales and Kosciuszko National Park. A cowboy town par excellence, it hosts a renowned rodeo in March or April: the Snowy River Bush Festival. It is also the burial place of Jack Riley (1841-1914), who inspired Australian bush poet Andrew Barton (Banjo) Paterson to write his famous work "The Man from Snowy River" (1890). In front of the Visitor Centre entrance, you can see a statue of the legendary hero imagined in the guise of a cowboy taming a thoroughbred, before listening to the poem on the nearby audiophone.