St Arnaud, Victoria

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St Arnaud
Victoria

Population:

2272 (2006)^[1]

Postcode:

3478

Elevation:

240 m (787 ft)

Location:

244 km (152 mi) from Melbourne
132 km (82 mi) from Ballarat
108 km (67 mi) from Horsham

LGA:

Northern Grampians Shire

State District:

Swan Hill

Federal Division:

Mallee

Mean Max Temp	Mean Min Temp	Rainfall
20.8 °C ^{69 °F}	8.4 °C ^{47 °F}	495.2 mm ^{19.5 in}

Saint Arnaud is a town in Victoria, Australia, on the Sunraysia Highway. It is in the Northern Grampians Shire local government area. It is named after French marshal Jacques Leroy de Saint Arnaud. At the 2006 census, St Arnaud had a population of 2272.

St Arnaud is a former gold mining town, situated on the main route between Ballarat and Mildura. The town features many well-preserved historic buildings which line the main thoroughfare of Napier Street, including a generous collection of pubs. A number of attractive gardens exist in town, including the Queen Mary Gardens, the Market Square gardens adjacent to the council offices, and Lord Nelson Park which offers sporting facilities as well as attractions such as the old Lord Nelson Mine and good views from Wilsons Hill.

A short drive south of St Arnaud towards Avoca is the St Arnaud Range National Park, featuring steep, forested terrain, camp sites, and the Teddington Reservoir.

It hosts a lawn tennis tournament over the Easter weekend each year.

For this town of ~2,300 people there are eight or so pubs, this means that there are 287 people to one pub (this includes child, elders, and non-pub-go-ers).

Pioneer Park - this is believed to be Australia's only remaining public park designed by Edna Walling Queen Mary Botanic Gardens