Treestoreys
Join a guided walk through Beechworth's historic treescape with stories of botany and science and learn how our exceptional tree-lined streets and colonial-era parks developed.
Beechworth’s wide streets feature historic plantings principally of elm and oak and in parks, churchyards and cemetery there are bunya-bunya, atlas cedar, cork oak, redwood, rare maple, superb eucalypts, including E. mannifera subsp. mannifera, and numerous other established species. This 90-minute guided walk will lead visitors from a wonderful cork oak in the Anglican churchyard at the top of Ford Street to Centennial Park behind the Old Hospital façade, along Finch Street and through Town Hall Gardens with its rank of towering giant sequoia – said to be the gift, as seedlings, of colonial government botanist Ferdinand von Mueller. The walk then takes you to Queen Victoria Park and the Rail Trail before returning to the heart of the town.