Best access to GZ is via the Pole track! You can walk, run, ride or even drive within cooee. Numerous tracks, including the Pole Track provide access to the huge towers that are part of the power grid and poles that are part of the hydro scheme which was the reason for being for Mt Beauty. Numerous other tracks now form part of the Big Hill Mountain Bike Park, but all those marked as a brown dotted line can be used for walking with or without poles. It may be confusing, but in the end, those downhill tracks will eventually take you back to Mt Beauty.
Mount Beauty was established by the State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SEC) in 1947 as the works headquarters for the Kiewa hydroelectric scheme. It superseded Bogong, which had been established in 1938, further upstream on the Kiewa River. The township is situated in the Kiewa Valley at an elevation of about 370 metres, overlooked by a steep mountain spur which was named Mount Beauty where you will find another cache. The SEC planned Mount Beauty as a model township with reticulated water, sewerage, a school (1948), a hospital (1958, transferred from Tawonga), a shopping centre, sports facilities and a worker's club. By 1952 nearly 500 houses were built and a high school was opened in 1964. In 1957 it had transferred management of the town to Bright Shire. For more info, visit the Information Centre in Mt Beauty that is also a museum.