Join the month-long Macedon Ranges Autumn Festival celebration throughout April.
Less than an hour from Melbourne, discover moveable feasts, spectacular vistas, and leafy picnic locations aglow with seasonal colour across nine charming villages in the Macedon Ranges.
Savour mouth-watering foodie events, destination gardens, creative workshops, genuine farmers' markets, Easter activities, and gallery exhibitions.
Food and Drink Trails Passport
Collect a Festival Map and Passport at the Woodend Visitor Information Centre, or other participating venues, and let your palate guide you the way along Australia's biggest Pie & Tart Trail, the plant-based Edgy Veg Trail, or the full-of-spirit Tipple Trail. Gather Passport stamps at participating venues to enter the Autumn Festival Ultimate Food and Drink Trail Competition.
Other highlights include:
A full month of events!
From farmers markets to creative workshops, blacksmithing, a French brocante marche, Easter activities for the kids, exclusive events and wine tastings, through to mushroom foraging, and more, discover more than 50 events during the Macedon Ranges Autumn Festival!
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.
NEW! Tipple Trail! Leveraging the success of Australia’s Biggest Pie & Tart Trail, the refreshing Autumn Tipple Trail features more than 30 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 – Over 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. Take on the challenge to eat your way around the Macedon Ranges across the thirty Festival days!
The Edgy Veg Trail – Celebrate with more than thirty mouthwatering meals from Macedon Ranges cafes, pubs and restaurants, pulling out all stops to create innovative plant-based dishes that will wow your tastebuds.