Melbourne to Mallacoota road trip: Best stops, distance & drive time

Melbourne to Mallacoota road trip attractions: Lakes Entrance

It’s 40km from Bairnsdale to Lakes Entrance. On the way, Adventure Fun Park Gippsland offers activities laser tag and go-karting, while there are also two good lookouts over the Gippsland Lakes in Kalimna.

Things to do in Lakes Entrance include wildlife-centric lake cruises with Lonsdale Eco Cruises and playing in the waves at Lakes Entrance beach. For affordable Lake Entrance accommodation, try the NRMA Eastern Beach holiday park, the Lakeside Motel Waterfront or the Cunningham Shore Motel.

Lakes Entrance to Mallacoota: Drive distance & road trip stops.

Consider Melbourne to Lakes Entrance the first leg and Lakes Entrance to Mallacoota the second. And this second, 202km section is much more green and rural. It also pays to branch off the Princes Highway here and there.

The first option is Lake Tyers Beach, a more chilled-out beach town option than Lakes Entrance. The drive then skirts north of the Lake Tyers State Park and the left-for-nature Ewing Morass Wildlife Reserve.

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