Melbourne Airport 1 hr 23
Ballarat Aviation Museum (14 min)
Guided tours of an airport hangar housing aircraft, engines, radios, cameras & aviation memorabilia. Sturt Street Gardens (20 min)
Central reservation formal park running for 13 city blocks along Sturt Street. Lake Learmonth (5 min) Clunes Bottle Museum (16 min) Eastern Peake Vineyard (9 min)
Winery, vineyard, wine tasting, and wine Lake Burrumbeet (21 min)
This shallow, 24-sq.-km. lake offers fishing, boating & jet skiing, plus black swans & other birds. Lake Wendouree (20 min)
Man-made 544-acre city center lake with wetlands, a 3.7-mi. cycling & running track & boating. Full Flight Birds of Prey Centre (12 min) St Georges Lake (19 min) Michael Unwin Wines (11 min)
Wine and winery Ballarat Botanical Gardens (16 min)
Lakeshore park, founded in 1858, with landscaped gardens, marble statues & a modern greenhouse. Ballarat Tramway Museum (17 min)
Quaint museum with a fleet of historic trams & an operational solar-powered tramway. | 
