Wycheproof

Overview

Wycheproof is country town who’s economy is based on wheat and sheep.

Wycheproof’s main claim to fame is that it is home to the smallest registered mountain in the world drawing many tourists to the town. 

The town also has a very unusual main street that is very wide and is divided in the middle by a train line that still runs trains.  The main street has a service road on each side plus the Calder Highway and then the train line in the middle.

History

Wycheproof has a settlement history of over 160 years with little aboriginal settlement prior to the white man because of the lack of water.  Squatters were in the area in the 1840s and had a good reputation.  In 1873 the land was opened up for selection and in 1883 the railways came to the town ending the isolation of the residents.

The settler had to pay £1 an acre for free land, they had to fence it, build sheds and house and cultivate it, and sow crops.

The first commercial buildings started to appear in Wycheproof in 1874 and the town moved forward helped along by the boom years of the 1920s and then since the 1960s the population started to decline.

Places of interest

Mount Wycheproof
Saleyards (Livestock Exchange)
Train line in the main street
Willandra Museum
Million bushel Silos
Steam Train and Turntable
Centenary Park
Courthouse

Accommodation

The small township of Wycheproof offers the following comfortable accommodation:

Mt Wycheproof Motor Inn (03) 5493 7388
Royal Mail Hotel (03) 5493 7401
Terminus Hotel (03) 5493 7429
Caravan Park (03) 5493 7400

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