Home About Gippsland Lifestyle & Family Business & Professional Municipalities Site Map Contact
  

General InformationPicnic
The Baw Baw Shire has a strong and growing residential, commercial and industrial base and is known for innovation and production of high quality products. Baw Baw can claim to be home to some of the World's Best Cheeses but is also recognised world-wide for its manufacturing capability. By locating in Baw Baw companies can leverage off these already recognised strengths.

The towns within Baw Baw provide an alternative to living in Melbourne, with their sophisticated eating options, quality and large choice of private and government educational options, arts (Warragul is home to the West Gippsland Arts Centre), gourmet food, snow skiing and alpine reserves and State Parks, you really need to "Experience Baw Baw".

Climate in Baw Baw ranges from Alpine at Mt Baw Baw (with snow in winter) to temperate and similar to Melbourne for other areas. Rainfall is about 1100mm per year. Our population is about 38,000 with approximately 12,000 people in Warragul and 7,000 in Drouin, other towns include Trafalgar, Yarragon, Longwarry, Neerim South, Rawson, Willow Grove, Erica, Thorpdale, Noojee and Walhalla.



5 Back to top of page 5

         

Privacy Policy | Legal Notice | Provincial Victoria web site | Contact webmaster

© 2004 Gippsland Local Government Network. All rights reserved. Page updated 30 June 2004.

Web site created by...