Facilities
Rawson Village comfortably accommodates up to 270 guests, with the capacity to increase accommodation to 300. Our accommodation is wheelchair friendly with several rooms and bathrooms fitted out for disabled access. We also have 3 conference rooms of varied sizes to meet the needs of our clients, and equipment such as micrphone and amplifier, projectors and screens, whiteboards and flipcahrts are available. Break-out rooms can also be provided.
Lodge Accommodation provides private bedrooms with shared bathroom facilities (separate male & female areas) within the building. There is a campfire and BBQ area set within the quadrangle of each of the Lodges. Donnelly Lodge includes 6 family rooms (1 double bed, 1 single bed and 1 set of bunk beds), and 7 twin rooms, as well as a small self cater kitchen and lounge area equipped with TV/Video/DVD. Coranderrk Lodge has 19 rooms all twin share accommodation (2 single beds). The lodge has a small self cater kitchen and lounge area equipped with TV/Video/DVD.
Activities
Onsite activities: Outdoor: Soccer, basketball, volleyball, badminton, in-ground trampoline, low ropes course, initiative activities, archery, high ropes course and flying fox. (The use of the high ropes course and flying fox require qualified instructors and involve additional cost.) We have recently constructed an obstacle course incorporating problem solving and initiative challenges. Indoor (group bookings): Table tennis, pool table, bocce, karaoke/concerts and carpet bowls.
Offsite activities: Tennis, squash, basketball at nearby Bells Basketball Stadium, orienteering, fishing, gold panning, bushwalking and swimming (either in the Thomson River or between November and Easter in the local indoor solar heated swimming pool). Abseiling, eco-canoeing, sports rafting, and mountain bike riding are also offered by qualified instructors at additional cost.
Nearby is the historic goldmining township of Walhalla, where you can take a ride on the Goldfields Railway across the spectacular Thomson River Bridge, tour down one of the worlds famous gold mines the Long Tunnel Extended Gold Mine, or simply explore the beautiful township. You could also enjoy an historic and environmental 4WD tour of the regions ghost towns using original packhorse and coach trails built by the settlers. Snowy Mt St. Gwinear is only a 25 minute drive from Rawson, while Melbournes water supply the mighty Thomson Dam is just 20 minutes away.
Only 30 kms away Powerworks provides a multi-media centre focused on the Victorian brown coal power industry and offers tours of the vast open-cut mines in the Latrobe Valley.
Rawson Village is proud to be accredited by the Australian Camps Association through the Camping with Confidence Program. Accreditation indicates that we have been independently appraised and meet the core requirements for the safe and reasonable operation of a campsite. As an ACA Accredited campsite a program of activities can be designed to meet your needs, and we are more than happy to discuss your ideas, provide quotes, and make bookings on your groups behalf.
N.B. Rawson Village is happy to provide information about activity programs, what to see and things to do in the area, but it is the responsibility of the individual or the group leader to check the suitability of these activities for their group.
Group Size
Rawson Village can sleep from 1 up to 300 guests.
