The Karoonda Park hostel on Gelantipy Road includes a local bus stop and unstaffed fuel service (business hours).

The Gelantipy Cemetery, Public Hall and Reserve are several kilometres south, alongside Butchers Creek.

The East Gippsland Shire Thematic Environmental History (2005) says: "Traces of silver and lead were found as early as 1857 in the Buchan district.

Seldom Seen is a remote locality in the Victorian high country, just north of Gelantipy and close to the Snowy River.

[2] Between Buchan in Victoria and Jindabyne in New South Wales, [3] the Seldom Seen Roadhouse was the only place for fuel along the Snowy.

Due to its south-facing location, it is often much cooler at Gelantipy during the daytime than at higher elevations further north (such as at Jindabyne), particularly in the summer.