The Big Apple

Batlow, New South Wales, Australia

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Current – limited access

Checked by Project Big Things · Aug 2026

This Big Thing is still here, but public access is limited. Check the access notes for details before visiting.

Batlow’s original giant apple, standing on private orchard land north of town as a landmark for one of Australia’s best-known apple-growing districts.

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The Big Apple

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Site-level location · 35.4898° S, 148.1540° E

FIELD GUIDE

The story

There is more than one apple at Batlow, and the record is precise about which one this is.

Destination NSW continues to identify the Big Apple as one of Batlow's defining attractions, and current mapping places the original sculpture roughly five kilometres north of town – separate from the smaller apple-themed features associated with the former Wilgro Orchards site. Conflating the two is the obvious error and this entry avoids it.

The original stands on private orchard land, which is why access is marked restricted.

Visit NSW puts it plainly: Batlow is a small town tucked in the hills between Tumut and Tumbarumba in the Snowy Valleys, with big scenery, big festivals and the biggest thing of all, the Big Apple. It began as a gold rush town in 1854 and is now on the Snowy Valleys Way.

Batlow apples are a genuine national brand – the altitude and cold winters produce fruit that has been sold under the town's name for a century, and the district's orchardist Herbert Hall is remembered as its visionary at the Batlow Historical Society Museum.

The district has also had a hard decade. The 2019-20 bushfires burnt through here severely, destroying the celebrated sugar pine stand in nearby Bago State Forest, since replanted with a new grove, picnic tables, nature playground and walking trail.

Batlow is also one of twelve towns on the Snowy Valleys Sculpture Trail, a 150-kilometre permanent collection of nearly sixty works by artists from fourteen countries, created by the team behind Sculpture by the Sea at Bondi.

The maker's identity, its scale and the date are absent from every source located.

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PRACTICAL

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WHAT TO EXPECT

Destination NSW continues to identify the Big Apple as one of Batlow’s defining attractions. Current mapping places the original sculpture roughly five kilometres north of town, separate from the smaller apple-themed features associated with the former Wilgro Orchards site.

ACCESS

The original Big Apple stands on private orchard land. It can be seen from Batlow Road, but there is no verified public walk-up access or safe dedicated stopping point; do not enter the property or stop unsafely on the road shoulder.

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TRANSPARENCY

Sources & research

Destination NSW – Batlow

Destination NSW · recorded 2026-08-22

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What we're still checking

The original Batlow Big Apple is on private orchard land and no safe dedicated visitor stopping point has yet been verified.

Open-licence image search completed 24 August 2026. No defensible reusable image with file-level commercial-use provenance was verified in the completed Commons, government/open-licence and archival/open-collection sweep.

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