The Great Alpine Road climbs 306 km across the Victorian Alps, the highest stretch of sealed road kept open year-round in Australia. We draw it from real map data, matched to the road itself. The route is verified against the real road, and your poster ships straight away.

Make it yours: 11 art styles, 10 colourways and your own title, with the poster redrawing live as you pick.

What you get

Paper

200 gsm matte art paper

Print

Giclée, 300 dpi

Frames

Black, white or natural timber, ready to hang

Preview

The preview is the finished poster. We print the design you approve in the preview, with no proof to wait on.

The route

The road runs from Wangaratta up through Bright and Harrietville before it climbs to Mount Hotham and drops away again toward Omeo and the coast at Bairnsdale. Gold turned up at Harrietville in 1852, and among the diggers who worked its creeks were Chinese miners driven out of the nearby Buckland Valley in an armed riot in 1857, who resettled at Harrietville and stayed.

The road's summit at Mount Hotham sits at 1,862 m and was not fully sealed until the late 1990s, closing the last gap in a route that snow now closes only in the worst weather, rarely for a whole season. Bright still runs on that gold-town layout, its wide main street lined with the plane trees planted for the autumn tourist trade a century after the last nugget came out of the ground.

Made for someone who drove it. Or for your own wall, because you did.

Related routes: Gibb River Road, Great Ocean Road and Milford Road.

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