Macedon Ranges Autumn Festival 2023

Overview

If you're looking for an excuse to venture out of town for some regional autumn adventures, you'll find it about an hour's drive north of Melbourne. Over the next four weeks, the Macedon Ranges Autumn Festival is set to fire up all your senses with another region-wide program of interactive art, garden tours, markets, music, and top-notch food and drink.

Showcasing the Macedon Ranges' many diverse charms, the fun is unfolding across nine local villages from Saturday, April 1–Sunday, April 30 — and the offerings are endless. Food-lovers can tuck into a foraged lunch feast at Lyons Will Estate, hit Big Tree Distillery for sunset cocktails and canapes, check out a swag of local farmers markets and get creative at a wine-matched clay workshop.

The famed Macedon Ranges Autumn Pie and Tart Trail will have you hunting down and sampling all kinds of pastry perfection, the Edgy Veg Trail is set to showcase the area's plant-based gems and a series of Tipple Trails lets you unearth local goodness of the liquid variety.

Animus Distillery is teaming up with Piper Street Food Co for a series of Friday night pizza parties, while Double Oaks Estate invites you to fill your Sundays with live tunes and wine tastings. Elsewhere, you'll have the chance to catch local artists at work during an open studio weekend, take an audio guided nature walk at Sanatorium Lake and get a little spooky on a ghost tour of Lancefield Mechanics Institute.

Throw in a few tours through historic gardens, artist-led painting classes and lots of live music pop-ups, and you might just decide to relocate here for the entire month.

Images: Chloe Smith for Visit Macedon Ranges