Here is a package for budget travellers. Stay at the historic Post Office Hotel in Chillagoe , Goldfields Hotel, Forsayth; and Shared facility air conditioned cabin at the Mt Surprise tourist park. Dinner ... read more
When the rich Hodgkinson Goldfield near Mount Mulligan was discovered in 1876, grazing licences were taken up throughout the district to supply beef to the hundreds of miners who rushed to the field. Dimbulah was established about 1899 as a construction camp for the Chillagoe Railway. When the railway began operating in 1900, the station became the last locomotive watering point along the Walsh River.
