Ararat

Ararat straddles the upper Hopkins River in western Victoria, where the plains meet the Grampians (Gariwerd) ranges and routes through the Wimmera and Western District converge. The town grew rapidly after Chinese prospectors found alluvial gold here in 1857, a story central to its identity. Broad streets retain the practical scale of a nineteenth-century service centre, while the former Aradale asylum and J Ward recall a more complex institutional past. Mount Langi Ghiran rises east of town, and the Grampians lie to the west, placing Ararat between vineyard country, farms and sandstone ranges. Browse other webcams across western Victoria to place Ararat in a wider geographic context.

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