Echuca Wharf

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Echuca Wharf is a historic wooden wharf on the Murray River in Echuca, Victoria, Australia. It was built about 1864 along with the Echuca–Melbourne railway, helping Echuca Port become one of Victoria’s largest ports and opening access to Melbourne’s markets for many river towns along the Murray-Darling basin. Today the wharf still operates for tourist paddle steamers. It was added to the Australian National Heritage List in 2007. In 2015 the wharf was fully restored, with much of the original timber replaced by locally milled red gum pylons, planks, and beams. The site is also on the Victorian Heritage Register and has a Heritage Overlay.