The Big Merino
Cnr Hume & Sowerby Streets
Phone: fax: +61 2 4822 9369
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The Big Merino, Cnr Hume & Sowerby Streets (Just off the southern exit from the Freeway in the service centre), ☎ +61 2 4822 8013 (fax: +61 2 4822 9369), [12]. Mon-Sat 8:30AM-5:30PM, Sun 9AM-5:30PM. Possibly Goulburn's most well-known tourist attraction. Being a rural hub, the 15 m (49 ft) tall concrete Merino sheep symbolises the town's importance to the local farming industry. Stairs ascend inside the structure past mildly interesting displays on wool and merinos (Australia's most common sheep breed). Originally located in the centre of the town, when the freeway bypass meant that the merino lost visitors, in 2007 the owners put it on a truck and moved it 800m up the road. The lookout at the top of the stairs has now been renovated to allow visitors to see out the top again. The base of the concrete ovine houses a tourist gift shop.
