A private tour combining fruit picking with a genuine Redwood forest and Warburton village.
A private tour for your group only, explicitly confirmed exclusive — real tractor-trailer fruit picking, Warburton village, and a genuine Redwood forest.
This is explicitly confirmed as private: "if you make a booking for your group then no one else will be able to book." Real activities include tractor-trailer fruit picking, Warburton village, and a genuine Redwood forest.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Hotel pickup in Melbourne.
No one else can book your slot.
Genuine hands-on farm activity.
Real, distinctive forest terrain.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour for your group only, explicitly confirmed exclusive — real tractor-trailer fruit picking, Warburton village, and a genuine Redwood forest. This is explicitly confirmed as private: "if you make a booking for your group then no one else will be able to book." Real activities include tractor-trailer fruit picking, Warburton village, and a genuine Redwood forest.
Warburton's own history is a genuine gold-and-timber story, not just a backdrop for a day of fruit picking. Gold was discovered there in 1859 by Jim McAvoy, a Canadian prospector who'd come from the California gold rush, and the area was first known informally as 'Yankee Jim's' after him; it was officially renamed Warburton in 1863, after the district's police magistrate and gold warden, Charles Warburton Carr. The main settlement later shifted down to its current position on the Yarra River during the 1880s.
The railway line from Lilydale to Warburton opened in 1901, built primarily to haul timber out of the surrounding Yarra Ranges forests, though it also carried general freight and passengers into the wider Upper Yarra Valley. That same railway helped open up agriculture across the district, including the berry-farming industry that developed in nearby towns like Seville — the broader fruit-growing character of this part of the Yarra Ranges that a tractor-trailer picking experience today is built on.
The Redwood Forest, the tour's other real stop, has an unusually specific origin for a forest that looks so naturally dramatic: the Californian Redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) now standing there were deliberately planted by Melbourne's Metropolitan Board of Works around 1930, alongside Bishop Pine and Douglas Fir, as part of an experimental hydrology and revegetation program after the original eucalypt forest had been cleared — an attempt to control weed growth on the bare ground using a grid-planted experimental plantation rather than a plan to create a tourist attraction. Further plantings followed between 1960 and 1963. Today more than 1,476 of those trees still stand, the tallest reaching around 55 metres, and the site is now heritage-listed.
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