Falls Creek Alpine Resort

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Location

Victoria
Australia
36° 51' 46.7784" S, 147° 16' 45.858" E
AU
General info: 

Falls Creek is 356kms (about 4.5 hours) from Melbourne and approximately eight hours' drive from Sydney. Falls Creek enjoys some of the best snow cover of all the Victorian Ski Resorts, combined with the ambience of a beautiful pedestrian only Alpine Village. It has 450 hectares of ski terrain for the downhill and snowboarding enthusiast and a fully integrated lift network as well as cat skiing in Mt McKay

BASE: 1500ft
SUMMIT: 1780ft
VERTICAL DROP: 342ft

NO. OF. LIFTS: 15
Gondolas: 0
Chairs: 0
Surface: 12

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