Touring
Ballarat Gateway
Stay in Ballarat for a week or more, take time to explore our attractions, gardens, wineries and restaurants, then use Ballarat as your bas...More info...
Golden Centrepiece
Exploring Ballarat and beyond is simply a matter of following the golden G on the Goldfields Tourist Route. The trail takes in all the impo...More info...
Travel Distances + Times
Ballarat is the ideal base from which to explore the entire region and further! Just an hour’s drive from Melbourne, half an ho...More info...
Getting to Ballarat
Ballarat is situated just over an hour's drive on the Western Freeway from Melbourne.
Visitors arriving by air into Melbourne can continue onto Ballarat by taking the Ballarat Airport Shuttle Bus, which runs a number of daily services. Bookings are recommended.
V/Line runs a number of trains daily to Ballarat from Southern Cross Station (formerly Spencer Street Station), Melbourne. Travel time is around one and half hours' but with the construction of the fast train network on the Ballarat
line this time has been reduced significantly for peak usage trains.
Viclink provides access to information on all train and bus services in regional Victoria's central public transport network.