Just 15 minutes from Daylesford, Glenlyon’s tree-lined main street is perhaps best known for its historic general store that now operates as café. Glenlyon’s rich soil provides local farmers with the ideal conditions to produce top quality vegetables, so stock up while you’re visiting. Green pastures and ploughed paddocks create a bucolic backdrop worthy of an oil painting. So pack a picnic to take in this glorious country side and be sure to stop in at the mineral springs reserve or the Loddon falls.

Join in a long tradition of fun, games and events on New Years Day in the pictures Glenlyon Recreation Reserve. Where the wider community come together for the Glenlyon Mixed Sports Day. Battling it out for bullboar eating, mineral water drinking, horse races, woodchop, gumboot throwing and kids events, for an old fashioned family fun day.