This is great news for those fans of end-to-ender bushwalks.
The Hume and Hovell Track, which stretches from Yass in the Southern Tablelands of NSW down to Albury on the border with Victoria, is about to undergo a $337,000 facelift.
Plans are underway to not only improve the track for bushwalkers but to also invest in infrastructure to attract more people to do the walk and stay in the regional communities along its route.
Totalling 426km, the track can take from 18 to 26 days to complete, depending on how you travel it.
It goes directly through Yass, Wee Jasper and Albury and other towns and villages such as Tumut, Talbingo and Tumbarumba via a short detour.
It starts at Cooma Cottage, on the outskirts of Yass, which was the home of Hamilton Hume, and ends at the Hovell Tree on the banks of the Murray River in Albury.
The track follows the expedition route of explorers Hamilton Hume and William Hovell in 1824 to Port Phillip (Melbourne). They were commissioned to find new grazing land in the young colony and to follow the western rivers to see where they led.
The Hume and Hovell Track was funded as a government bicentennial project back in 1988. After it was determined that the Hume and Hovell route flowed mostly through Crown land, state forests, national parks, reserves and land owned by the Department of Water Resources, government funding was allocated to link all the existing tracks.