As the green turns to orange and leaves begin the fall, towns across the Macedon Ranges are preparing for the award-winning Autumn Festival to return this April.
Joining the popular suite of tailored trails and regular markets from April 5 to 28 are the live and local in community halls series.
The series celebrates locally based artists and community venues, while the treasure trail highlights some of the region’s top leafy picnic spots.
Festival favourites will also be returning, including the autumn pie and tart trail, the food and drink passport, tipple trails and the edgy veg trail, with the Woodend visitor information centre the go-to festival hub.
Mayor Annette Death said the four year old festival was a growing celebration of the region’s natural beauty mixed with some of the best local, seasonal produce and performers.
“I’m unashamedly biased but proud in saying that the Macedon Ranges has so much to offer all year round, but there’s definitely something extra special in the air during autumn,” she said.
“Whether you’re a first-time visitor to our shire, a regular visitor or a resident, we encourage you to plan your trip in advance and enjoy all of what our beautiful towns have to offer.”
To specifically support Macedon and Mount Macedon residents and visitors during the autumn period, limited temporary measures will be reinstated along Honour Avenue and surrounds.
From late March through to May12, temporary signage will be installed along Honour Avenue and other council-managed roads, to clearly highlight no parking zones.
Then from March 29 through to April 28, on weekends and public holidays, traffic management personnel will enforce a full road closure along the same section of road from 8am to 6pm.
