Snow Trip

Annie,

Depending on having snow Mt Baw Baw is beginner friendly mostly cross country but good first time down hill areas. Then Mt Buller and Mt Buffalo and on to Hotham, Falls Creek. Going the other way to sight seeing Lake Mountain and St Gwinear.

Depend on what you want to spend and how for you wish to travel as well as your time frame.

Baw Baw toboggan park


Victorian Snow Field Cams

Do you want mainly to do snow play, cross country or downhill?

annie
you can always come to mt buller for your 2 days. you can stay off the mountain which is cheaper and visit mt buller one day and mt stirling the other day. did you want to ski or just see and play in the snow. Mt Stirling is great as it not nearly as busy as mt buller. let me know if you want more info

Hi Annie,
I have been to dinner plain about 5 times and and am booked in again in august.
The wife and i have 2 kids (2 &5) and we all love it.
its smaller than the usual resorts. We rent a house but there are hotel rooms if thats your thing. We like our own home becose they all have open fires, good for the marshmellows :)
we walk to the restarantsor pubs.
only 10km or so from hotham. last year my oldest did skinglessons there. you can catch a bus between hotham and dinner plain which run every hour from memeory but i prefer to drive.
by having our own house it has a full kitchen if that suits you.

Well that's a bit clearer.

Steer clear of Buller in the school holidays. Busy and expensive.

Good beginner resorts are Lake Mountain near Marysville and Mt Stirling near Mansfield. Neither have lift-serviced skiing. Cross-country, snow shoeing, toboggans and snow play.

Dinner Plain is a good spot to stay, also has a gentle slope with a tow for beginner skiing, x/c skiing trails, local hire and toboganning, and as posted, there's frequent buses to Hotham (which however is not IMO a very good beginner resort).Dinner Plain may however by light-on for snow in early July - it's hard to predict (last year's 2nd week of the Vic holidays got a great dump but that meant cold cloud snow and wind for 3 days running).

For an all-round resort my vote goes to Falls Ck. You can look for accommodation at Howman's Gap YMCA camp, Bogong Village or Mt Beauty (there is also lodge accomm. in the resort but you don't favour that).

That's my 2c worth after having taken my kids to them all over a couple of decades.