Positioned between the rolling hills of Gundagai and Tumut in the beautiful mountain country of New South Wales, Nimbo Fork Lodge is a jewel in the Riverina hospitality crown.

The lodge is a lovely boutique getaway 400 kilometres south-west of Sydney at the confluence of the Tumut River and Nimbo Creek on the gateway to the Snowy Mountains.

Greg Jeloudev from JLL Hotels & Hospitality Group is calling for expressions of interest for the freehold going concern just outside the town of Killimicat.

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“It’s a pretty special place,” Mr Jeloudev said.

“It’s luxury boutique escape right on the river and perfect for getting away to a really quiet, picturesque place for the weekend.”

The property contains 12 intimate accommodation suites, including six bespoke cottages.

There is a grand Victorian main lodge with a public bar, and commercial kitchen, and the property also has the internationally renowned restaurateurs Three Blue Ducks providing an excellent food offering.

Guest activities include fly-fishing, horse riding, mountain biking and massage therapies.

Mr Jeloudev said there was a substantial upside to be realised through a hands-on management approach with an excellent underlying landholding on 39 hectares with RU1 Primary Production zoning.

There is scope to further increase the offering by constructing additional accommodation (STCA) or providing ancillary guest experiences

The underutilised grazing pastures with water availability pointed to the potential of agricultural production and the property also had dormant trout pondage comprising four 50m pods with the associated pumping equipment.

The Nimbo Fork Lodge is in a fascinating area of Australia, both for scenery and historic interest.

The area's rivers may have been the boundaries or connection-points of the three traditional owners linked to the area. During summertime, the high country was a meeting place for indigenous people, with the Bogong moths being an abundant food source in the warmer months.

British pastoralists began carving up the land in the area during the 1830s.

Some of the pubs in the town have been in use for a century and a half or more, including The Oriental Hotel which has been on its site since the early 1850s.

Gundagai, located along the Murrumbidgee River 25 kilometres north of the Nimbo Fork Lodge, is immortalised through poems and songs such as “Where the Dog Sits on the Tuckerbox”, and “Along the Road to Gundagai”.

It is perhaps best known for its monument to the early pioneers, the iconic Dog on the Tuckerbox, situated on the Hume Highway.

In November 1824, explorers Hamilton Hume and William Hovell passed close to the spot where Gundagai now stands. Hovell recorded seeing trees already marked by steel “tommyhawks”.

A bronze sculpture of two Aboriginal men with a bark canoe was unveiled in Gundagai in 2017 to honour their courage in rescuing as many as 68 people during the 1852 floods.