This autumn, discover moveable feasts, spectacular vistas, and leafy picnic locations aglow with seasonal colour - let's celebrate Autumn!
Revel in nature’s mindfulness, unearthing farm-fresh food and drink adventures across nine charming regional villages at the Macedon Ranges Autumn Festival.
Macedon Ranges Autumn Festival
- When: 1-30 April
- Where: Various locations across the Macedon Ranges
- Tickets: many events are free, while some are ticketed, go here for full program
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Uncover an extensive calendar of more than 60 unique events; think mouth-watering culinary events, destination open gardens, artisanal workshops, genuine farmers markets, Easter workshops, paranormal investigations, gallery exhibitions, mushroom foraging, and more!
Collect a Festival Map and Passport and let your palate guide the way along Australia’s Biggest Pie & Tart Trail, the plant-based Edgy Veg Trail, or the new, full-of-spirit Tipple Trail.
Visit eight leafy picnic Treasure Trail locations to discover clues, uncover the top-secret pie recipe, and feature within your own picture-perfect Autumn Festival picnic poster.
Check out these highlights – not to be missed!
- A full month of events – from farmers markets to exclusive food and drink events, creative workshops, blacksmithing, a French brocante marche, Easter activities for the kids, mushroom foraging, and more. Experience more than 50 events.
- Tipple Trail (NEW!) – the refreshing autumn Tipple Trail features 34 Macedon Ranges venues each heroing a signature drink for the adults in your travel group. Nominate a designated driver and explore responsibly throughout April to get a taste of the Macedon Ranges’ craft brewers, gin distillers, cool country wine makers, along with country pubs and wine-bars showcasing their cocktail-making talent.
- Australia’s Biggest Pie & Tart Trail – more than 50 venues will be cooking up delicious pies, tarts, and other buttery, crumbly interpretations as part of the Autumn Pie and Tart Trail –making it the biggest known pie trail in Australia! Perhaps start with savoury and then move on to sweet, or vice versa.
- The Edgy Veg Trail – celebrate with more than 30bmouthwatering meals from Macedon Ranges cafes, pubs and restaurants who are pulling out all stops to create innovative plant-based dishes that will wow your tastebuds.
- The Treasure Trail Returns – get ready to solve the 2025 Treasure Trail, with eight secret pie recipe clues to discover within eight leafy picnic hotspots throughout the Macedon Ranges, featuring sky-high autumnal trees.
Collect your Festival Map and discover bountiful botanic gardens, glistening lakes, and adventurous playgrounds.
- Share your Picture-Perfect Autumn Picnic (NEW! ) – unlock a hidden photo opportunity available exclusively by QR Code along the Autumn Festival Treasure Trail during April. Visit any of the eight picnic locations to find and scan the Picture-Perfect Autumn Picnic QR Code to feature within your very own Autumn Festival poster.
Now there’s something to do every day of April, no excuses for boredom here! Let yourself be led through the incredible local attractions for a month-long feast of the senses, you won’t be sorry you made it to the Macedon Ranges Autumn Festival.
