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Regional city in Victoria, Australia

# Mildura

Mildura is a regional city in north-west Victoria, Australia.

![Mildura](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Deakin_Ave_from_Fifteenth_looking_north.jpg/3840px-Deakin_Ave_from_Fifteenth_looking_north.jpg)

Mildura · Wikimedia Commons

The place

Mildura is a regional city in north-west Victoria, Australia. Located on the Victorian side of the Murray River, Mildura had a population of 35,652 at the 2021 census. When nearby Wentworth, Irymple, Nichols Point, Merbein and Red Cliffs are included, the combined urban area had a population of 58,914 in 2021, having grown marginally at an average annual rate of 1.3% year-on-year over the preceding five years.

Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildura), CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

## Worth seeing in and around Mildura

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. Australian Inland Botanic Gardens The Australian Inland Botanic Gardens is a botanical garden in Mourquong, in the Wentworth Shire of south-west New South Wales. The city of Mildura and the Murray River are nearby. 6.1 km · botanical garden in New South Wales, Australia · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Inland_Botanic_Gardens)

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

## What Wikivoyage says to see

1. Murray River
2. Apex Park Apparently Australia's (or at least Victoria's) largest inland beach, Apex is a great place to swim.
3. Wentworth - The Meeting Of The Waters The location where the Murray and Darling Rivers meet - a riverside park provides good views of the rivers.
4. Woodsies Gem Shop
5. Patchewollock Small township with a population of 100 people.

From [Wikivoyage: Mildura](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Mildura), CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

## Things to do

Visit wineries including Trentham Estate, Oak Valley Estate and Lindemans or one of the growing number of boutique producers. Cruise the Murray River on the Paddlesteamer Melbourne or a chartered houseboat. Watch the Speedway races. Oval, flat track motorbike racing. Time your visit to coincide with the annual jazz, country music or arts festivals. Go camping!

From [Wikivoyage: Mildura](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Mildura), CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

## Where to eat

Make a booking at Stefano's at the Grand Hotel, considered to be one of the best restaurants in Victoria. The Grand Hotel has a number of other restaurants, including the Pizza Cafe. Visit the restaurant strip in Langtree Avenue.

1. Brass Monkey Funky restaurant with live music nights.

From [Wikivoyage: Mildura](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Mildura), CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

## Getting to Mildura

**Stations:** Mildura Airport, 8.1 km\

- Adelaide → Mildura Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/adelaide-to-mildura) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Adelaide&to=Mildura)
- Melbourne → Mildura Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/melbourne-to-mildura) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Melbourne&to=Mildura)
- Geelong/Melbourne → Mildura Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/geelong-melbourne-to-mildura) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Geelong%2FMelbourne&to=Mildura)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Mildura)

Not yet researched

## No local-transport research exists yet for Mildura

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Mildura. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around

- Go next Mungo National Park is a day trip from here Broken Hill, a mining city 3 hours drive to the north Renmark – the closest South Australian town to Mildura.

From [Wikivoyage: Mildura](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Mildura), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done

1. [Kangaroo Island](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kangaroo-island) AU 9 ways of moving, 17 sources 480 km
2. [Bruny Island](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bruny-island) AU 11 ways of moving, 24 sources 1,106 km
3. [K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kgari) AU 8 ways of moving, 31 sources 1,454 km
4. [Milford Sound / Piopiotahi](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/milford-sound) NZ 8 ways of moving, 32 sources 2,487 km
5. [Wakatobi](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wakatobi) ID 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 3,738 km

If you know how people move in Mildura – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cmildura&title=Mildura&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fmildura), and the note gets an entry.

Around it

## Next door to Mildura

- [Gol Gol](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gol-gol) town in New South Wales, Australia 6.1 km
- [Irymple](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/irymple) town in Victoria, Australia 5 km
- [Buronga](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/buronga) town in Lower Darling, New South Wales, Australia 2.5 km
- [Nichols Point](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/nichols-point) town in Victoria, Australia 5.4 km
- [Mourquong](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/mourquong) locality in New South Wales, Australia 5.9 km
- [Cabarita](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cabarita) town in Victoria, Australia 6.8 km

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