Currango Station's buildings
include the oldest surviving continuously-occupied homestead in Australia’s Kosciuszko
National Park. It is also the largest and most intact example of
permanent settlement above the snowline in the country, and has great
historical significance as one of the most important links to the first
European settlement of the area.
The Homestead and the other
remaining habitable buildings are also highly significant for their
architecture, and the importance of their preservation is now widely
recognised. It has over twenty-five remaining buildings and ruins
which span 150 years of settlement in the Park.
Self-catering overnight
accommodation is available in the Homestead itself, and in two nearby
cottages. The area attracts a wide variety of activities including
fishing, walking, hiking and camping, cross-country skiing, horse
riding, and more contemplative pursuits such as photography, painting,
sketching, and reading.
Currango Station is located
near Tantangara Reservoir, in the Kosciuszko National Park in southern
NSW. As the crow flies, it is about 30km from the township of
Adaminaby to its south-east, and about 65km from Tumut to its north-west
(click here for maps).
The National Parks and
Wildlife Service NSW (NPWS), and Friends of Currango (FoC) share
management of the site. FoC consists of a group of regular
visitors who, since 1976, have been giving financial support to
Currango,
implementing a great number of other initiatives,
and until March 2007, performing reconstruction and maintenance work.