Editing Snowy Mountains Scheme (section)

==Tourism==
The Snowy Scheme is a major tourist destination. Sightseeing driving tours to the key locations of the Scheme are popular out of regional centres like [[Cooma]], [[Adaminaby]] and  [[Jindabyne]] along roads built for the Scheme like the [[Snowy Mountains Highway]] and [[Alpine Way]] and towards sights like Cabramurra, as Australia's highest town, spectacular dam walls, and scenic lakes. Trout fishing is popular in the lakes of the Scheme, notably Lake Jindabyne and Lake Eucumbene.

The [[Snowy Scheme Museum]] opened at Adaminaby in 2011 to profile the history of the Scheme.<ref name=ABC>{{cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-10-17/snowy-scheme-museum-opens/3574192|title=Governor-General opens Snowy museum|work=ABC News|location=Australia|date=17 October 2011|access-date=20 October 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017010950/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-10-17/snowy-scheme-museum-opens/3574192|archive-date=17 October 2015|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

Though [[skiing in Australia]] began in the northern Snowy Mountains in the 1860s, it was the construction of the vast Snowy Scheme from 1949, with its improvements to infrastructure and influx of experienced European skiers among the workers on the Scheme, that really opened up the mountains for the large scale development of a ski industry, and led to the establishment of [[Thredbo]] and [[Perisher Ski Resort|Perisher]] as leading Australian resorts.<ref name="thredbo.com.au">{{cite web|url=http://www.thredbo.com.au/village-life/about-thredbo/|title=History|work=About Thredbo|publisher=Kosciuszko Thredbo Pty Ltd|year=2013|access-date=20 October 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130501120115/http://www.thredbo.com.au/village-life/about-thredbo/|archive-date=1 May 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref name="perisherblue.com.au">{{cite web|url=http://www.perisher.com.au/resort-information/history.html|title=The History of Perisher|publisher=Perisher Blue Pty Limited|year=2013|access-date=20 October 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006165957/http://www.perisher.com.au/resort-information/history.html|archive-date=6 October 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The construction of [[Guthega Dam]] brought skiers to the isolated [[Guthega]] district and a rope tow was installed there in 1957.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.christianacapital.com/Text/1201316577093-6700/|title=Guthega Ski Resort|publisher=Christiana Capital Group|work=Project management|year=2012|access-date=20 October 2012|archive-date=21 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190621125608/http://christianacapital.com/intermediate-only/guthega-ski-resort|url-status=dead}}</ref> Charles Anton, a snowy worker identified the potential of the Thredbo Valley.