Hay New South Wales
Hay in New South Wales is a wonderful sleight of hand. Drive through the town and you feel you are in a prosperous and substantial rural town. Drive out of the town and you are on the great, flat Hay Plain with its low-lying saltbush. Every famous person who has visited or stayed has commented on the flatness of the surrounding land.
Hay is the centre of some of the flattest country on earth. The plains offer their own distinct beauty to see your first sunset or sunrise, and experience standing under a 360 degree sky ablaze with brilliant colour and mesmerizing cloud formations. Star gazing is the best you’ll find.
As a day trip from Hay, visit the surrounding villages of Booligal, Maude, Oxley, One Tree, Carrathool and Booroorban.
Enjoy all Hay has to offer
The appeal of the town for the visitor lies in its impressive, historic buildings; its genuinely interesting 19th-century gaol; and it’s state-of-the-art Australian Shearers Hall of Fame.
The Hay plain is rich and consequently, the town thrives on the surrounding rural industry: some of the best merino sheep country in Australia; feed crops, market gardens, grains, legumes and cattle.
One of Hay’s Historic Buildings
Discover intriguing museums and enjoy outback sunsets, lovely parks, cycle ways and thrilling rodeo in the charming country town of Hay. The Australian Shearers Hall of Fame, fine heritage buildings and fascinating World War II history are just three of the many attractions.
The riverbanks of the Murrumbidgee is the place to find seclusion and relax under towering river red gums for a picnic and a spot of fishing. Bird watchers will find over a hundred species of birds that make the river and plains home.
Originally known as Lang’s Crossing (named after three brothers named Lang) the settlement was officially named Hay in October, 1859. It wasn’t because there was lots of hay in the area but rather because there was a local squatter and politician, a Secretary of Lands and Works, named John Hay. He was later knighted and became Sir John Hay.
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