Bogong Village is a small village with 26 houses available for rent, the Alpine Village Belle restaurant and bar and an Outdoor Education campus for school children attending Victorian Government schools.
A resident manager looks after accommodation and guests as well as overseeing care of the gardens and facilities.
The village was established between 1938 and 1940 by the State Electricity Commission (SEC) to provide accommodation and services for engineers and construction workers on the Kiewa hydro-electric scheme. A post office, a primary school and a shop were also established. The existing Bogong Outdoor Education Centre was established much later, in the 1970s.
Following completion of the Kiewa scheme in the early 1960s, the SEC took steps to beautify the village by planting the terraced wedding garden and garden beside the lake. A team of gardeners were employed to maintain the beautiful seasonal villages gardens that people enjoy today.
With the passage of the seasons the gardens burst into life in spring with the flowering of the rhododendrons, camellias, azaleas and dogwoods, take on a cool and leafy green appearance in summer and then transform into a spectacular blaze of colour in autumn. About once every winter the village wakes up to snow.
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