Mount Wombat (799 metres), which includes a floral and fauna reserve, is 4.6 km.

Town facilities include a general store/ cafe, war memorial and recreation reserve.

Golfers play at the course of the Strathbogie Golf Club on Armstrong Avenue.

[6] The Strathbogie FC then played in the following football competitions - Strathbogie has warm, dry summers, though which are frequently interrupted by cold fronts on account of its proximity to the Southern Ocean (typical of central Victoria); summer maximum temperatures have been as cold as 9.7 °C (49.5 °F) on 1 December 2019, and on 3 February 2005 the maximum did not exceed 10.5 °C (50.9 °F).

A pronounced autumnal lag is noted (March being almost as warm as December), and the winters are cold and rainy with many occurrences of snowfall.